page_title: James Rossant
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: James Rossant / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Harvard Graduate School of Design.
context_page_description: James Stephan Rossant was an American architect, artist, and professor of architecture.
  A long-time Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, he is best known for his master plan of Reston, Virginia, the Lower Manhattan Plan, and the UN-sponsored master plan for Dodoma, Tanzania. He was a partner of the architectural firm Conklin & Rossant and principal of James Rossant Architects.
context_section_description: Born in Sydenham Hospital, New York City, Rossant grew up in the Bronx, where he attended the Bronx High School of Science. He studied architecture at Columbia University, the University of Florida, and Harvard University's Graduate School of Design (under Walter Gropius).
caption: Gund Hall, home of Harvard GSD, where Rossant studied architecture under Walter Gropius and others
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