Susannah Churchill Drake | |
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| Education | Dartmouth College Harvard Graduate School of Design |
| Occupation(s) | Landscape Architect and Architect |
Susannah Drake (born 1965) is a practicing architect and landscape architect who specializes in addressing contemporary social and environmental issues through design.
Drake was born in Cambridge, England in 1965, and holds dual citizenship for the United States and the United Kingdom. Drake earned a Bachelor of Arts at Dartmouth College and Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is both a practicing architect and a practicing landscape architect. [1] [2]
Drake founded the Brooklyn-based DLANDdstudio, an interdisciplinary landscape and architectural design firm, in 2005. [3] The firm's focus is improving urban environoments through the incorporation of ecology. [4] Drake herself is known for projects that address social issues and seek to limit the impacts of climate change, believing in the role of soft waterfronts, "in which the line between the water and the city is blurred, diffused, thickened." [5]
Under her leadership, DLANDstudio received significant recognition for its innovative designs and work, including the Gowanus Canal Sponge Park in Brooklyn, an EPA Superfund Site. [6]
Drake has also focused on improving the lived ecology of urban and campus environments. Her recent work with Argenta Commons Plaza in Little Rock, Arkansas gained praise for "striking a balance between art and nature," with forms reflecting the oxbow lakes that prominent in the North Little Rock Area. [7] She has received generous funding for work in stormwater management, adaptive infrastructure, and mitigative park creation from the Graham Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and the New York State Council on the Arts. [8]
In addition to her professional pursuits, in 2019 she was appointed associate professor at the University of Colorado Boulder Program in Environmental Design. She is currently on the Board of Directors of the Regional Plan Association and Clyfford Still Museum. She has also served as president and Trustee of the New York ASLA and as a Trustee of the Van Alen Institute. [9] She is currently a peer advisor to the US Department of State Bureau of Overseas Operations. [8]
Drake is most known for her interdisciplinary work addressing difficult problems of contemporary design.
In 2021, she was selected as one of the three finalists to redevelop Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway for pedestrian use. [11]
Drake's Rising Currents project, a collaboration with ARO Architects, featured design strategies for urban waterfronts. The project was part of MoMA's "A New Urban Ground" exhibition in 2010, and is a part of the museum's permanent collection. [13] [14]
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