Denise Hoffman Brandt, RLA is principal of Hoffman Brandt Projects, LLC and Director of Landscape Architecture in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York. Her work focuses on landscape as ecological infrastructure — the social, cultural and environmental systems that sustain urban life and generate urban form. Among numerous other honors, she is the recipient of a New York Prize Fellowship in the Van Alen Institute’s Projects in Public Architecture program. Her project, titled “City Sink,” which investigated urban plant-soil systems for carbon sequestration, was recognized by the Environmental Design Research Association with a Great Places research award, and her book by that title is forthcoming (Oscar Riera Ojeda Press). Other publications include “Relief Organism: Rethinking refugee encampment at Dadaab, Kenya” in The Right to Landscape: Contesting Landscape and Human Rights, edited by Egoz, Makhzoumi, and Pungetti (Ashgate Press) and “A view to America Street” in Places, (Design Observer online). Her work is widely exhibited and cited, including essays in Verb Next (forthcoming from Actar Press), Ecological Urbanism (Lars Muller Publishers), Landscape Journal, the New York Times, Landscape Architecture Magazine and Architectural Record.

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