Installation of Derek Hoeferlin

Derek Hoeferlin, AIA, affiliate ASLA, is principal of [dhd] derek hoeferlin design, an award-winning architecture, landscape, and urban design practice based in St. Louis. He is the Raymond E. Maritz Professor of Architecture and chair of landscape architecture at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Hoeferlin is principal investigator of Way Beyond Bigness: The Need for a Watershed Architecture, which is the title of his book (Applied Research + Design Publishing, 2023), where he collaboratively researches integrated water-based design strategies across the Mississippi, Mekong, and Rhine river basins. He is co-principal investigator of Bio-diversity Farms in the Paramo de Sumapaz, Colombia (2021-present, with Ivan Jimenez/Missouri Botanical Garden/WashU Living Earth Collaborative); is a team member on two WashU Divided Cities Initiative grants (with Gavin Kroeber and others, 2019-present); was co-principal investigator on the water-based design research projects MISI-ZIIBI: Living with the Great Rivers, Climate Adaptation Strategies in the Midwest River Basins (2013-2016, with John Hoal and Dale Morris;) and was co-principal investigator on Gutter to Gulf: Legible Water Infrastructure for New Orleans (2008-2012, with Jane Wolff and Elise Shelley).

Hoeferlin lectures on his work internationally, and his designs, photography, teachings, and writings have been published and exhibited widely, including in Chasing the City, New Orleans Under Reconstruction, Designing Suburban Futures, the 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.

Hoeferlin has led AIA and ASLA award-winning projects and jury recognized competitions, including Designing Resilience International Open Competition (first prize), Chouteau Greenway Competition (with TLS Landscape Architecture and Object Territories), and with his colleague Ian Caine: Rising Tides Competition (first prize), Dry Futures Competition (honorable mention), and Build a Better Burb Competition (finalist). Hoeferlin earned Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Architecture degrees from Tulane University and a post-professional Master of Architecture degree from Yale University, graduating institutions with multiple honors.