Celebrating 3 awards in 2023!

Homes and Gardens has interviewed Dani for not one, but two recent design articles! The first covers modern garden design techniques and the second features backyard hot tub ideas.

After many years of research, writing, and editing, it is a joy to share Food Urbanism with you. The book is authored by Craig Verzone and Cristina Woods, whose design practice, Verzone Woods Architectes, has a strong grounding in incorporating productive landscapes at all scales of work. Dani worked at the practice in 2013, and maintained a collaborative relationship with the firm through the publication of this book.

Dani Alexander is the National Garden Club representative to the Friendship Garden. Read her account of volunteering to plant its newest iteration, designed by Phyto Studio.

Dani Alexander will be co-editing a book on Food Urbanism, authored by Craig Verzone and Christina Woods of Verzone Woods Architects.

Studio AKA Principal, Dani Alexander, will be guest critic at the University of Virginia’s Landscape Architecture graduate studio reviews to be held Monday and Tuesday, May 6 and 7. She will review Elements: Materializing Atmospheres led by Matthew Seibert and Prototyping the Territory, led by Brad Cantrell, Brad Goetz, and Andrea Hansen-Phillips.

Principal Dani Alexander was recently interviewed alongside Stephanie Shermoen of Terrain Integration in Orange, CA and Robert Bell of Bell Design Inc in Southampton, NY about how to effectively get privacy through planting.

Something bites the corner of my right eye – my skin warms and hardens as it rises into a perfect circle. The welt is maddeningly itchy. I am now a part of the ecosystem; someone’s food source. Buzzing and chirping envelop me. I mistake the trickling of sweat down my leg for another hungry intruder and slap it away.

Something bites the corner of my right eye – my skin warms and hardens as it rises into a perfect circle. The welt is maddeningly itchy. I am now a part of the ecosystem; someone’s food source. Buzzing and chirping envelop me. I mistake the trickling of sweat down my leg for another hungry intruder and slap it away.

"Urban Omnibus, Freshkills Park, and the jury panel are pleased to announce the winner of the inaugural Urban Wild Writer Residency. This residency seeks to bring a first-hand perspective to topics that include the environment, technology, urban life, nature, and waste. One writer will gain personal access to the diverse ecosystems present in the unopened park in late summer, 2018. The writer will produce a work of creative nonfiction engaging with the contemporary metropolitan landscape to be published online by Urban Omnibus in the fall of 2018."

Dani Alexander's recent article on Houston's Buffalo Bayou was published by the Boston Society of Landscape Architect's Fieldbook Magazine. Read the article, reposted to the Shifting Latitudes blog, here.