Brown

Hillary Brown is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a professor of architecture at The City College of New York (CCNY). She earned a bachelor of arts degree from Oberlin College and a master’s in architecture from Yale University. She is the director of the CCNY Master of Science Program in Urban Sustainability. She is a Fellow of the Post-Carbon Institute, senior advisor to the Ecologic Institute, U.S., and a Senior Research Fellow at the CUNY Institute of Urban Systems.

Previously, Hillary served on the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (BICE) and was formerly a board member of the U.S. Green Building Council. She founded New York City's first Office of Sustainable Design in 1996. She co-authored both the City of New York High Performance Building Guidelines and High Performance Infrastructure Guidelines. Her consulting firm, New Civic Works, has engaged public and institutional clients in greening facility and infrastructure capital programs. Her book, Next Generation Infrastructure: Principles for Post-Industrial Public Works, describes alternative, integrated approaches to regenerative urban system planning. Her latest book, Infrastructural Ecologies: Alternative Development Models for Emerging Economies, reflects her interest in progressive solutions to infrastructure placement in developing nations.