12 Facts About Susannah Drake

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Susannah Drake was born on 1965 and is a practicing architect and landscape architect who specializes in addressing contemporary social and environmental issues through design.

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Susannah Drake was born in Cambridge, England in 1965 and holds dual citizenship for the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Susannah Drake earned a Bachelor of Arts at Dartmouth College and Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

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4.

Susannah Drake is both a practicing architect and a practicing landscape architect.

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5.

Susannah Drake founded the Brooklyn-based DLANDdstudio, an interdisciplinary landscape and architectural design firm, in 2005.

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6.

Susannah Drake has focused on improving the lived ecology of urban and campus environments.

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Susannah Drake 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.

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8.

Susannah Drake is currently on the Board of Directors of the Regional Plan Association and Clyfford Still Museum.

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Susannah Drake has served as president and Trustee of the New York ASLA and as a Trustee of the Van Alen Institute.

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10.

Susannah Drake is currently a peer advisor to the US Department of State Bureau of Overseas Operations.

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Susannah Drake is most known for her interdisciplinary work addressing difficult problems of contemporary design.

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12.

Susannah Drake's Rising Currents project, a collaboration with ARO Architects, featured design strategies for urban waterfronts.

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