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Danny Forster is an Emmy Award-winning producer, educator and internationally recognized architectural designer. His versatile career is united by his unique ability to teach people to find meaning in buildings and his passion to open their eyes to the built world that surrounds them.

Danny hosted and then produced Discovery Channel's award-winning series Build It Bigger. The show brought Danny to pioneer construction projects in more than fifty countries. At each location, he would go to extreme lengths—two miles below a seismic zone in a Peruvian tunnel, landing in a helicopter on the back of a top-secret naval vessel, 1,600 feet in the air outside a twisted skyscraper—to make complex architectural content accessible to a wider audience.
Turning to the genre of feature-length documentary, Danny created and directed Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero, an Emmy Award-winning six-episode series. With Steven Spielberg, his co-executive producer, Danny chronicled the enormous effort to rebuild and reimagine Lower Manhattan in the wake of 9/11, along with the human stories behind that effort. As the moving portrait of civic survival and rebirth, the film implicitly argues that understanding what we build is the key to knowing our city and ourselves. He is now producing and directing several other projects for film and television, including a global travel and architecture series for Discovery International and a sequel to Rising, which will air in 2015.
Danny also teaches sustainable design at Harvard's Graduate School of Design (his alma mater) and at the Syracuse University School of Architecture. He lectures internationally on architecture, engineering and sustainability and serves as an architecture and engineering expert for Discovery Education, a world leader in digital educational materials for children.
He graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in architectural history and earned a master's degree in architecture at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Earlier in his career he was a stand-up comedian and real estate agent. As an entrepreneur, Danny founded two companies, Urban Filter in 2001, a web-based real estate start-up that helped graduates find apartments in major cities, which he has since sold, and the design firm DANNY FORSTER Design Studio in 2007, which finds sustainable and inventive solutions to architectural puzzles. DFDS projects include the design (with Peter Koon Architects) of a 35-story hotel on the southern edge of Ground Zero, a DFDS tower anchoring a massive downtown redevelopment in Nashville, Tennessee, a LEED Gold-certified Michigan- lake house, an office expansion for New York fashion designer Lela Rose, a redesigned 9/11 Tribute Center and a floating foyer for Curious Pictures.
In 2013, Forster spoke at the Global Minds conference in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on behalf of the Russian bid to host EXPO 2020. In 2014, Forster delivered a TED talk in Traverse City, Michigan, "Looking vs. Reading: Filmmaking Architecture ” and spoke at the 34th Annual Future of Education Technology Conference.

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Building Meaning: Discovering the World of Architecture with Danny Forster

Danny Forster er en Emmy-prisvindende producer, underviser og en internationalt anerkendt arkitektonisk designer. Hans alsidige karriere er forenet af hans enestående evne til at lære folk at finde mening i bygninger og hans passion for at åbne deres øjne for den byggede verden, der omgiver dem.

Danny var vært og derefter producent for Discovery Channels prisbelønnede serie Build It Bigger. Showet bragte Danny til pionerkonstruktionsprojekter i mere end halvtreds lande. På hvert sted ville han gå til ekstreme længder - to miles under en seismisk zone i en peruansk tunnel, lander i en helikopter på bagsiden af et tophemmeligt flådefartøj, 1.600 fod i luften uden for en snoet skyskraber - for at gøre komplekst arkitektonisk indhold tilgængeligt for et bredere publikum.
Vendt til genren af ​​langvarig dokumentarfilm skabte Danny og instruerede Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero, en Emmy Award-vindende seks-episode-serie. Med Steven Spielberg, hans co-executive producer, nedskrev Danny den enorme indsats for at genopbygge og genimaginere Lower Manhattan i kølvandet på 9/11 sammen med de menneskelige historier bag dette forsøg. Som det bevægende portræt af borgerlig overlevelse og genfødsel hævder filmen implicit, at forståelse af, hvad vi bygger, er nøglen til at kende vores by og os selv. Han producerer og instruerer nu flere andre projekter til film og tv, herunder en global rejse- og arkitekturserie til Discovery International og en fortsættelse af Rising, som vil blive sendt i 2015.
Danny underviser også i bæredygtigt design på Harvards Graduate School of Design (hans alma mater) og på Syracuse University School of Architecture. Han holder foredrag internationalt om arkitektur, ingeniørarbejde og bæredygtighed og fungerer som arkitektur- og ingeniørekspert for Discovery Education, en verdensleder inden for digitalt uddannelsesmateriale til børn.
Han er uddannet fra Wesleyan University med en B.A. i arkitektonisk historie og opnåede en kandidatgrad i arkitektur på Harvards Graduate School of Design. Tidligere i sin karriere var han stand-up komiker og ejendomsmægler. Som iværksætter har Danny grundlagt to virksomheder, Urban Filter i 2001, en webbaseret ejendomsstart-up, der hjalp nyuddannede med at finde lejligheder i større byer, som han siden har solgt, og designfirmaet DANNY FORSTER Design Studio i 2007, som finder bæredygtige og opfindsomme løsninger på arkitektoniske gåder. DFDS projekter inkluderer design (sammen med Peter Koon-arkitekter) af et 35-etagers hotel på den sydlige kant af Ground Zero, en DFDS-tower, der fastgør en massiv downtown-genudvikling i Nashville, Tennessee, et LEED Gold-certificeret Michigan-søhus, en kontorekspansion til New York-mode designer Lela Rose, en redesignet 9/11 Tribute Center og en flydende foyer til Curious Pictures.
I 2013 talte Forster ved Global Minds-konferencen i Yekaterinburg, Rusland, på vegne af den russiske bud på at være vært for EXPO 2020. I 2014 leverede Forster en TED-talk i Traverse City, Michigan, "Looking vs. Reading: Filmmaking Architecture" og talte på den 34. årlige Future of Education Technology Conference.

Building Meaning: Discovering the World of Architecture with Danny Forster

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Discover the meaning of buildings and open your eyes to the built world with an internationally recognized architectural designer and Emmy Award-winning producer.

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