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We are a full service architecture, interiors, strategy, planning & sustainability firm. Our mission at HLW is to question the norm, design with passion, and build what’s next. We...

Bryony Roberts Studio is an award-winning design and research practice based in New York. Integrating methods from architecture, social practice, and historic preservation, the studio creates community-based projects in...

Debbie Love is a certified planner with over 30 years of experience in urban design, land use planning and development.  She has served as Project Manager/Primary Author of a...

Two Twelve is a graphic design firm that seeks sustainable solutions to problems of wayfinding, information, and visioning. We have practiced a special communications discipline that we refer to...

SCAPE is a design-driven landscape architecture and urban design studio based in New York and New Orleans. We believe landscape architecture can enable positive change in communities through the...

Buro Happold is an international, integrated consultancy of engineers, consultants and advisers, operating in 26 locations worldwide, with over 70 partners and 1,900 employees.

Gary is an integral part of Stantec’s resiliency team. As discipline leader for planning and landscape architecture, he understands that resiliency is about public safety and fiscal responsibility, as...

Scott Kelly is the Communications and Graphic Design Coordinator at Van Alen Institute.

Jeremy has been working with BIG since the establishment of its New York office in 2010, and brings a focus on issues of urbanism, landscape, infrastructure, and climate change...

Curtis + Ginsberg Architects LLP (C+GA) provides award-winning architectural services, specializing in quality sustainable design that emphasizes the needs of the client, the environment and the community. Based in...

Chris Jordan explores the medium of light, movement, and time through the use of technology. His installations have appeared at the Moma, The New Museum, The Whitney, The Museum...

New Affiliates is an award-winning New York-based design practice led by Ivi Diamantopoulou and Jaffer Kolb. We have completed a range of work, from ground up projects to interiors...

ommission is the federal government’s central planning agency in Washington, DC and surrounding counties of Maryland and Virginia.

At MARVEL, we recognize that the pressing issues facing contemporary cities, communities, and the natural environment can only be solved with bold, collective action. We embrace global challenges. For...

Yadiel joined Marvel in 2017 as lead of its landscape architecture practice, where he has been in charge of managing open space, master plans and landscape projects. He has...

Pratik Dubey is the Strategic Partnerships Associate at Van Alen Institute.

The mission of University Neighborhood Housing Program (UNHP) is to create, preserve, and improve affordable housing and bring needed resources to the Northwest Bronx. UNHP achieves its mission in...

Alisha Kim Levin is the Director of Communications at Van Alen Institute.

COOKFOX Architects was founded in 2003 by Rick Cook and Bob Fox to pursue beautiful, innovative and sustainable design. Now led by Rick and six partners, our core mission...

Since its founding in 1968, Two Trees, a Brooklyn-based, family-owned real estate development firm, has owned, managed and developed a portfolio worth more than $4B in real estate. Today,...

SOFTlab is a design studio based in New York City. The studio combines a research-based design practice with an interest in how technology, craft, and materials come together in...

Christina DeConcini is World Research Institute’s Director of Government Affairs.

Joanne Wu is an undergraduate student at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn majoring in Industrial Design and minoring in Interior Design.

Established by Congress in 1924, the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) is the federal government’s central planning agency for the National Capital Region. Through planning, policymaking, and project review,...

For more than 20 years, Leni’s exploration of light has evolved into a profound understanding of the medium, which informs her unique approach across a variety of genres, including...

The Surdna Foundation supports social justice reform, healthy environments, inclusive economies, and thriving cultures across the United States. We dismantle the barriers that limit opportunity to create more prosperous,...

Originally from Hanoi (Vietnam), Ari-Duong Nguyen (they/she) is a recent graduate with an MA in Media Studies from The New School. They write criticism of cinema and time-based media,...