Installation of Derek Hoeferlin
Provost Mark D. West and Dean Charlie White cordially invite you to the installation of Derek Hoeferlin as the Raymond E. Maritz Professor.
4:30 p.m. Ceremony begins in Steinberg Auditorium
Reception immediately following in Kemper Art Museum
About Derek Hoeferlin
Derek Hoeferlin, AIA, ASLA (affiliate), is the Raymond E. Maritz Professor of Architecture and Chair of Landscape Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, where he has taught since 2005. He is a licensed architect and founding principal of [dhd] derek hoeferlin design, an award-winning architecture, landscape, urban and design-research practice based in St. Louis.
He is the principal investigator and author of Way Beyond Bigness: The Need for a Watershed Architecture (Applied Research + Design Publishing, 2023), where he collaboratively researches integrated water-based design strategies comparatively across the Mekong, Mississippi, and Rhine River basins.
Hoeferlin lectures on his work internationally, and has published and exhibited in Chasing the City, New Orleans Under Reconstruction, Designing Suburban Futures, The Journal of Architecture, Journal of Architectural Education, The Anthropocene Review, Dwell, Landscape Architecture Magazine, Wallpaper, Metropolis, ‘scape, Scenario Journal, Archinect, Places Journal, Exhibit Columbus, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt. His research was featured in the Mid-America Emmy Award-winning video Navigating the Mississippi.
He led or co-led multiple AIA and ASLA award-winning projects, and jury recognized competitions Designing Resilience International Open Competition (first prize), Rising Tides Competition (first prize), Chouteau Greenway Competition (finalist), Build a Better Burb Competition (finalist), and Dry Futures Competition (honorable mention).
Hoeferlin was a core member for award-winning multidisciplinary projects along the Mississippi River, including Changing Course Competition (STUDIO MISI-ZIIBI), Dutch Dialogues and Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan (Waggonner & Ball), Gutter to Gulf (WashU/University of Toronto), MISI-ZIIBI (WashU/Royal Netherlands Embassy, Washington D.C.), and Unified New Orleans Plan (H3 Studio).
He has received WashU interdisciplinary seed funding from Living Earth Collaborative, The Divided City, and Here and Next Spark and Ignite grants.
He earned Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Architecture degrees from Tulane University and a post-professional Master of Architecture degree from Yale University.