Susannah C. Drake FASLA, AIA is the Principal of DLANDSTUDIO multi-disciplinary design firm that reinvents and retrofits urban infrastructure to make it more ecologically productive. Projects, facilitated by grants, push the limits of existing regulations suggesting strategic hybrid economic/design models, innovative urban storm water management systems, and urban infrastructure typologies that transform experience and function of the city. In 2013 Drake was honored with the Emerging Voices Award by the New York Architectural League; Urban Design Fellowship from the Design Trust for Public Space; and the Brunner & Young Architect Award from the AIA. She is the recipient of grants from the Graham Foundation, NEIWPCC, the Fitch Foundation, NOAA, DEP, LIFF, DEC, AIA and the NYSCA among others. Drake is a Graduate of Dartmouth College and received her Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Susannah Churchill Drake
Works associated with this person or group
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Print, New Urban Ground, Proposal for Rising Currents Exhibition, 2009
View of lower Broadway featuring proposed porous concrete street tiles and underground vaults.
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Print, New Urban Ground, Proposal for Rising Currents Exhibition, 2009
View of Hanover Square featuring proposed porous concrete street tiles and underground vaults.
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Print, New Urban Ground, Proposal for Rising Currents Exhibition, 2009
View of the eastern shore of lower Manhattan, illustrating a series of raised walkways connecting the man-made estuaries and people kayaking.
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Print, New Urban Ground, Proposal for Rising Currents Exhibition, 2009
A schematic view of lower Manhattan showing additional shoreline different colors of green. Outer and inner dotted lines.
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Print, New Urban Ground, Proposal for Rising Currents Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 2009
A perspective view of lower Manhattan featuring green areas of marshes and marina.