Nilay Mistry

Nilay Mistry is a landscape architect and Associate Teaching Professor at the Master in Landscape Architecture + Urbanism (MLA+U) Program at the Illinois Institute of Technology with several years of design practice in North America, Africa, and Asia. Raised in an immigrant family, he works to vivify public spaces in cities as platforms for expression by all participants through built landscapes and academic inquiry. He has been a collaborator on various public art initiatives championing landscape including the Sounding Bronzeville Gathering Space in Chicago’s Burnham Wildlife Corridor and Coiled Serpent in Horner Park. Nilay enjoys spending time with family, usually near trees.