Devanshi Purohit is an Associate Principal(Urban Design) at CBT with eleven years of experience. Highly skilled at generating innovative approaches and urban solutions, Devanshi brings an energetic and facile conceptual vision to her work. With broad experience in architecture, urban design, and resiliency planning, Devanshi shapes communities, nationally and internationally, through active placemaking and smart design. Her on-going study of the interplay among societies, infrastructure, and our ever-changing climate, drives her work. Some of her recent notable work includes Cambridge Crossing Master Plan, Suffolk Downs Master Plan, and the Blueway at the New England Aquarium.
She is currently actively engaged in the Boston community, focusing on resiliency discussions including the Boston Society for Architecture (BSA) where she co-chairs the Committee on Resilient Environments (CORE). She was one of the panelists and a contributor to the "Living with Heat" charrette and publication organized by the Urban Land Institute's (ULI) New England district council. She was also selected to be one of the eight professionals to participate in Copenhagen Urban Lab 2019, a ten-day workshop to develop mitigation strategies for UHI for the cities of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg in Denmark.