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Dlandstudio architecture + landscape architecture pllc is an interdisciplinary, award-winning design firm founded in 2005 by Susannah C. Drake and based in Brooklyn, New York.

The firm provides an integrated approach to planning, programming and design. As leader and collaborator on large consultant teams that include architects, artists, landscape architects, planners, and engineers, Dlandstudio helps enrich team consideration of expressions of landscape meaning while maintaining focus on project goals throughout the development process. The firm is committed to creating projects with a strong conceptual basis drawn from an understanding of the place, the client, the program, and appropriate construction techniques. Our goal is to create beautifully designed, ecologically intelligent, and well executed projects that work well at the large scale and are executed in rigorous detail.

''Since its establishment, Dlandstudio has grown to include both national and international projects. Ongoing projects include construction of the Gowanus Canal Street end Spong Park in Brooklyn, and a study with WXY edevelopment of the Queensway along a decomissioned railway in Queens. ''Recent works include Public Media Commons in St. Louis, the USA Pavilion for the 2015 Milano Expo, in collaboration with Biber Architects, the Gowanus Canal Sponge Park™ masterplan, a public open space system designed to absorb and remediate stormwater, the Brooklyn Bridge Pop-up Park, a temporary waterfront open space that attracted almost two hundred thousand visitors over thirteen weeks of operation in 2008, and the security for the New York City Police Department headquarters in Lower Manhattan. Dlandstudio’s current international work includes the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls outside of Lilongwe, Malawi and the design of a 1200 acre public park and resort development in Abuja, Nigeria. The firm’s Brooklyn Queens Expressway trench study and Gowanus Canal Sponge Park™ project are the recipients of numerous awards from the American Institute of Architecture and American Society of Landscape Architects.

In 2013, Dlandstudio was named one of The Architectural League's 2013 Emerging Voices, and Principal Susannah Drake was honored with the National AIA's 2013 Young Architects Award. Susannah Drake was also selected as an ASLA Fellow in 2013 by the ASLA Council of Fellows.

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Susannah C. Drake, FASLA, AIA is the founding Principal of Dlandstudio architecture + landscape architecture pllc.

Prior to starting an independent practice, Susannah worked for architects and landscape architects in New York, Cape Cod, New Hampshire, Wyoming and San Francisco. Exposure to diverse ecosystems, population densities, and scales of operation enriched her vision of what makes places truly special.

Susannah received a Bachelors of Arts Degree from Dartmouth College and MArch and MLA degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is the recipient of grants from the Graham Foundation, The James Marston Fitch Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts for research on campus landscapes and large scale urban infrastructure projects. Susannah is the trustee and Past-President of the New York ASLA, is on the board of the Van Alen Institute, serves on the campus design advisory board at Dartmouth College, and is a former director of the Fine Arts Federation and member of the Directors Council of New Yorkers for Parks.

In addition to her professional practice, Susannah has taught as an adjunct professor of design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York and the Syracuse University School of Architecture. She is also currently a visiting Professor at the The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union and a Senior Associate at the Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design.

She is a registered landscape architect and a registered architect.

Completed

 * BQE Trench: Reconnection Strategies for Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
 * Gowanus Canal Sponge Park™ Masterplan, Brooklyn, NY
 * MoMA Rising Currents: A New Urban Ground, New York, NY
 * Pop-Up Park at Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY
 * Glimpses 2040: Hybrid Urban Base, Queens, NY
 * HOLD System: Flushing Bay, Queens, NY
 * HOLD System: Harlem River, Bronx, NY
 * Infra-sutures, Montreal, QC, Canada
 * Court Livingston Schermerhorn BID Streetscape, Brooklyn, NY
 * One Police Plaza Masterplan, New York, NY

In Progress

 * Gowanus Canal Pilot Street-End Sponge Park™, Brooklyn, NY
 * Alley Pond Environmental Center, Queens, NY
 * BQ GREEN: Reviving South Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
 * Prospect Cemetery, Queens, NY
 * Stuyvesant Fence Restoration, New York, NY
 * The Queensway, Queens, NY