Emerging Voices Winner Profile
Future Green Studio
Future Green | Nowadays, Queens, New York, 2015. Credit: K. Taro Hashimura
The Architectural League’s annual Emerging Voices program spotlights North American architects, landscape architects, and urban designers who have significant bodies of realized work and the potential to influence their field.
Future Green Studio is a 2018 winner of the award.
The Brooklyn-based landscape design firm focuses on research and fabrication as well as horticulture. Founded in 2008 by David Seiter, who studied landscape architecture and regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania, it now employs 25 people.
Its work includes:
- Nowadays, a Queens performance venue with a laid-back, parklike atmosphere
- Spontaneous Urban Plants: Weeds in NYC, a book promoting the aesthetic and ecological benefits of weeds
- Half Street, a block-long pedestrian plaza in Washington, DC that uses green infrastructure to manage stormwater runoff.
For more information, visit the firm’s website.
Related
Emerging Voices 2018
Competition
March 1, 2018
Emerging Voices lectures: modus studio & Future Green Studio
Event
Profiles of spontaneous urban plants
Landscape designer David Seiter champions the ecological and aesthetic benefits of informal plants—weeds—in urban space, and catalogues the uses and cultural significance of New York’s native flora.
