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Danny Forster

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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Om Danny Forster

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.