Evan Shaner was born and raised in Los Angeles. He received his Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his Master of Architecture from the highly competitive and avant-garde Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). He worked for prestigious international firms such as UNStudio in Amsterdam and MAD Architects in Los Angeles before founding Shaner & Co.

Evan has had the privilege of living in multiple countries and traveling to many more, and has cultivated a sense of city and building design that aims to be transnational and transcultural. This sensibility is at the core of the design methodology used at Shaner & Co.