Denise Hoffman Brandt

Associate Professor, Director of Landscape Architecture
The City College of New York

Lecture Title: City Sink

Monday, April 18, 2011
5:30 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall

Landscape Architecture Lecture Series - JJR/Deb Mitchell sponsored Lecture

Denise Hoffman Brandt is an associate professor and director of the Landscape Architecture program at the City College of New York, and principal of Hoffman Brandt Landscape Design in New York City. Hoffman Brandt's work focuses on landscape as urban ecological infrastructure - the social, cultural and environmental systems that sustain urban life and generate urban form. Among other recent awards, Hoffman Brandt received a 2009 New York Prize Fellowship from the Van Alen Institute to develop City Sink, an analysis and design proposal for urban carbon storage in soil and plant systems. That project was recognized with a 2010 Great Places award and awarded a 2010 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Semi-Finalist. The research was expanded to look at suburban morphology, and she led a team of City College graduate students to produce a winning entry in the recent Build A Better Burb competition.

Another urban system research project, Relief Organism, her 2009 planning proposal for Kenyan refugee encampments, published in Architectural Record, received honorable mention in the Architectural Association's Environmental Tectonics Competition and was featured in an international workshop on the right to landscape.