Nicole Hollant-Denis
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Nicole Hollant-Denis is an American architect, founder and principal of Aaris Design Studios. She is best known for her work on the African Burial Ground National Monument in New York City,[1] for which she won the NOMA (National Organization of Minority Architects) Design Excellence Honor Award.[1] Hollant-Denis's other projects include the redesign of La Marqueta Plaza in Harlem, New York.
Nicole Hollant-Denis | |
|---|---|
| Born | Brooklyn |
| Education | B'Arch, Masters in Design |
| Alma mater | Cornell University, Harvard University |
Early life and education
Hollant-Denis grew up in Brooklyn as a first generation American. Her parents immigrated from Haiti and Martinique.[2][3] Her mother worked as a teacher at the Lyceum Kennedy, and her father was a TV repairman and the father of Haitian Americans United Progress (HAUP).[2] She earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University and a Masters in Design from Harvard University.[2][3]
Career
After graduating from Cornell University in 1989, Hollant-Denis worked at the Port Authority of NY & NJ and then later went on to establish Aarris Architects in 2001.[4][5]
In 2004, Hollant-Denis and Rodney Leon, her partner at Aarris Architects, won a competition to design the African Burial Ground National Monument in downtown Manhattan.[6][7][8] The monument serves as a memorial to the estimated 20,000 enslaved and free Africans buried on the site between the 1690s and 1794.[7] The monument was opened in February 2006 by then president George W. Bush.[9][10]
In 2019 she was the lead architect for the redesign of La Marqueta Plaza in Harlem, an open-air marketplace that re-imagines the urban public space.[11][12][13]
Her Haiti House for Life, a prototype house done in collaboration with Taller Larjas, is a 2011 design for sustainable residential housing in Haiti.[14]
Awards and honors
References
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