DANIELLE N. CHOI

Danielle N. Choi is a landscape architect, writer, and educator. Her research explores landscape design as a cultural practice that brings technology, infrastructure, and ecology into dialogue with public life. She is an associate professor of landscape architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and a member of the Boston Public Design Commission. Before joining the GSD, Choi practiced in landscape architecture studios in New York City and Berlin.


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Infrastructural Breaches of Continental Divides

2017 - ongoing

Category: Research

By the late 19th century, European colonization was extensive in its exploitation of the North American continent. The westward expansion of agriculture, ranching, and mining aligned territorial boundaries with significant geological features such as the Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes, and the Mississippi River. Water infrastructure of the early 20th century ruptured these geologic divides. This project investigates the meaning of landscape “regions” amidst these contradictions.

Point cloud drawing by Kira Clingen and Cecilia Huber.
Site Credit: August Sklar