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 in WashU’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.
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).
The Mississippi River defines St. Louis, shaping its life and culture. But today, for many St. Louisans, that connection has been broken, says Derek Hoeferlin, chair of landscape architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.
Derek Hoeferlin, chair of landscape architecture and urban design at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, has been named a University Design Research Fellow for Exhibit Columbus 2020-21.
Associate professor Derek Hoeferlin has been named chair of the landscape architecture and urban design programs in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.
Rescinding DACA will deprive Houston of a substantial workforce at the very moment the city needs that workforce most, argues water management expert Derek Hoeferlin, associate professor of architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.
An international cohort of designers, engineers, hydrologists, planners and other professionals — along with a handful of Washington University faculty, students and young alumni — have won a global competition charged with developing a 100-year plan for stabilizing the Mississippi River delta. A delta, says the Sam Fox School’s John Hoal, that’s on life support.
