Nicole Hollant-Denis Explained

Nicole Hollant-Denis
Birth Place:Brooklyn
Education:B'Arch, Masters in Design
Alma Mater:Cornell University, Harvard University

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. Hollant-Denis's other projects include the redesign of La Marqueta Plaza in Harlem, New York.

Early life and education

Hollant-Denis grew up in Brooklyn as a first generation American. Her parents immigrated from Haiti and Martinique.[2] 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). She earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University and a Masters in Design from Harvard University.[3] [2]

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] The monument serves as a memorial to the estimated 20,000 enslaved and free Africans buried on the site between the 1690s and 1794.[8] 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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Boyd. Herb. BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2019: Ancestors at rest in Manhattan's historic African Burial Ground. 2021-04-25. nydailynews.com. 7 February 2019 .
  2. Web site: McCallister . Jared . CARIBBEAT: 'Phenomenal Black Boy' children's book encourages, educates and combats harmful stereotypes . nydailynews.com. 13 September 2020 .
  3. Web site: Bringing Back Beauty: Aaris Design's Nicole Hollant-Denis on Cultural Identity, Her Circle of Sisters, and Healing. 2021-04-30. Madame Architect. 29 April 2021 . en-US.
  4. Web site: Staff . T. N. J. . Nicole Hollant-Denis, AARIS Design Studios PLLC . The Network Journal . 2020-09-04.
  5. Web site: 20 Inspiring Minority Architects, Designers and Advocates for a More Diverse Profession - Architizer Journal . architizer.com . en . 2019-01-18.
  6. Book: Araujo . Ana Lucia . Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past . 2020-10-15 . Bloomsbury Publishing . 978-1-350-04847-8 . en.
  7. Book: Godfrey. Brian J.. Preserving Whose City?: Memory, Place, and Identity in Rio de Janeiro. 2021-04-28. Rowman & Littlefield. 978-1-5381-3663-8. en.
  8. Web site: African Burial Ground National Monument The Cultural Landscape Foundation . tclf.org.
  9. Book: Araujo . Ana Lucia . Shadows of the Slave Past: Memory, Heritage, and Slavery . 2014-08-07 . Routledge . 978-1-135-01197-0 . en.
  10. Web site: Establishment of the African Burial Ground National Monument . georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov.
  11. Web site: McCallister . Jared . CARIBBEAT: Public Advocate Jumaane Williams' high profile gives hope to others with Tourette syndrome . nydailynews.com. 17 November 2019 .
  12. Web site: 2019-12-13. Architect Nicole Hollant-Denis Renovates East Harlem's LaPlacita Site Of Harlem Night Market. 2021-04-25. Harlem World Magazine. en-US.
  13. Web site: NYCEDC Reopens Renovated La Placita at East Harlem's La Marqueta. 2021-04-25. edc.nyc. en.
  14. Web site: Haiti: House for Life by TALLER LARJAS, LLC architecture & design . Architizer . en-us . 2012-01-27.
  15. Web site: 100 Women to Watch in Architecture Baubible. 2021-04-25. de-CH. 2021-04-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20210424210817/https://baubible.ch/news/100-women-to-watch-in-architecture/. dead.
  16. Web site: WBC 2018 Outstanding and Next Generation of Women Builders. 2021-04-25. wbcnyc.org.
  17. Web site: The Haitian Roundtable » 2015 Inductees. 2021-04-25. en-US.
  18. Web site: Minority Architects Mobilize to Help Haiti. 2021-04-25. www.architecturalrecord.com. en.
  19. Web site: 2018-08-23. Building of the Day: African Burial Ground National Monument - Calendar - AIA New York / Center for Architecture. 2021-04-25. Calendar - AIA New York Center for Architecture. en-US.

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