Us

We are based between the Finger Lakes Region of Central New York and New York City. We aim to deliver beautiful, high-performing landscapes via a research-driven approach that is playful, curious, and engaged. We privilege transparency and quality in the design process and aim to deliver results that reflect this. We are perfectionists who love our work and willingly go down the rabbit holes we encounter.

We do work that matters to us, and we hope it matters to you too.

Zeynep Göksel

Zeynep is originally from Turkey, and grew up in Israel and Lebanon, most recently in Beirut. As a designer and planner, she is inspired by the layered qualities that landscape architecture and design can offer public urban life across multiple scales. Her passion for international and multiscalar work is complemented by evolving interests in landscape analysis, planting design, and mapping and graphic representation as tools for advancing design inquiry. Recent work has focused on coastal landscapes, with a specific interest in connecting experiential, material and performative moments and elements to wider public infrastructures. She credits her appreciation of ephemeral landscape qualities to witnessing the impact of post-war devastation in Lebanon. These events have also instilled in her the belief that the transformative power of design comes with a responsibility to adapt and engage shifting political and socioeconomic conditions and boundaries.

Zeynep earned a Bachelor of Liberal Arts with concentrations in architectural studies, economics and Middle Eastern history from Sarah Lawrence College in 2011. In 2018, she earned a Master of Landscape Architecture and a Master of City and Regional Planning from Cornell University, where she received the Addison G. Crowley, B.L. Arch ‘38 Prize, the ASLA New York Upstate Chapter Distinguished Student Award, and the Merit Award in the Department of Landscape Architecture. During her time at Cornell, Zeynep was also the recipient of two teaching assistantships and several travel awards, including the E. Gorton Davis Fellowship (Havana), the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies Travel Grant (Beirut), and grants through the Department of Art, Architecture & Planning and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (Barcelona, Shanghai, and Brooklyn). 

Zeynep has worked at Snøhetta, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, and Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City. At Storefront, she was the Communications Coordinator for OfficeUS, the project commissioned for the United States Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. She has also worked at Marpillero Pollak Architects and Pilot Projects, both based in New York City. 

She likes interstitial spaces and other strange things.

Daisy Hoyt

As a designer, Daisy is compelled to explore the aspects of the places we inhabit that, consciously or not, shape our actions and attitudes. Her approach incorporates research on large scale societal and environmental forces which shape patterns of living as well as explorations of the tactile and the phenomenological. Her research has investigated the complex cultural and natural dynamics that generate flooding, and attitudes regarding the management and lived experience of rivers developed by communities in response. Further work focused on the potential for a (somewhat) managed approach to sea level rise to drive symbolic and cultural shifts regarding climate change. Daisy also has extensive experience in horticulture, public space management, and planting design. A forever love of plants and a sustained interest in ecological processes drives her design approach, alongside the knowledge that everything we create contributes to and participates in the larger, ever evolving value systems of our society. 

Daisy received her Bachelor's Degree in 2005 from Clark University in Worcester, MA, where she majored in Studio Arts with a focus on Drawing and Textile Arts, and minored in the History of Colonialism. After college, she worked in public horticulture both as a gardener and as a manager at Stuyvesant Cove Park in Manhattan for Solar One, an environmental arts, education, and advocacy non-profit. She received her Master of Landscape Architecture from Cornell University in 2018, where she received two teaching assistantships and the E. Gorton Davis Travel Fellowship. At Cornell, she also worked as a research assistant investigating the intersection of flooding, federal aid, community, and socio-economic standing. She has worked as a landscape designer for GGN in Washington, DC.

Growing up in a rural part of New York fostered a foundational love of the complexity, strangeness, and beauty of natural places. An early adulthood spent in post-industrial cities such as Worcester, MA and Providence, RI provided an equal fascination with the uncontrolled mixture of architecture and wildness in decaying landscapes of old factories and run down infrastructure. A long stint in New York City provided an appreciation of a (still wild, still strange) developed urban landscape.