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American architect
Nicole Hollant-Denis
BornBrooklyn
EducationB'Arch, Masters in Design
Alma materCornell 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, 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. 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.

Career

African Burial Ground, New York, New York

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.

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. The monument serves as a memorial to the estimated 20,000 enslaved and free Africans buried on the site between the 1690s and 1794. The monument was opened in February 2006 by then president George W. Bush.

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.

Her Haiti House for Life, a prototype house done in collaboration with Taller Larjas, is a 2011 design for sustainable residential housing in Haiti.

Awards and honors

  • 2021 - 100 Women to Watch in Architecture
  • 2019 - WBC - Women Builders Council - Outstanding Member
  • 2015 - Haitian Round Table “Change Maker”
  • 2015 - AIA Women's History Month Exhibit
  • 2009 - Honor in Design Excellence, National Organization of Minority Architects, (NOMA)

References

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  8. Godfrey, Brian J. (2021-04-28). Preserving Whose City?: Memory, Place, and Identity in Rio de Janeiro. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-5381-3663-8.
  9. Araujo, Ana Lucia (2014-08-07). Shadows of the Slave Past: Memory, Heritage, and Slavery. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-01197-0.
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  12. "Architect Nicole Hollant-Denis Renovates East Harlem's LaPlacita Site Of Harlem Night Market". Harlem World Magazine. 2019-12-13. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
  13. "NYCEDC Reopens Renovated La Placita at East Harlem's La Marqueta". edc.nyc. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
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  17. "The Haitian Roundtable » 2015 Inductees". Retrieved 2021-04-25.
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  19. "Building of the Day: African Burial Ground National Monument - Calendar - AIA New York / Center for Architecture". Calendar - AIA New York | Center for Architecture. 2018-08-23. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
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