Instructor: Damon Arrington

Damon Arrington
 Damon Arrington is a Landscape Urbanist who focuses on crisis landscapes and their subsequent effect on the people that inhabit them, he is dedicated to exposing environmental injustice. Damon obtained a Master's Degree in Landscape Architecture from The City College of New York where he was a scholar for the J. Max Bond Center for Inclusion and Equity. His notable Landscape Architecture projects in NYC include The Hills on Governors Island, Jamaica Bay Restoration Project and park spaces for The New York Housing Authority. His work bridges science and architecture with art and community.

Damon is owner of Verru Design, a landscape design firm in Brooklyn, NY which focuses on research and community as a way to generate design thought. Visit his website at verrudesign.com

Classes by this instructor


Landscape Design Summer Intensive

In four weeks, earn 25% of the course hours required for the NYBG Certificate in Landscape Design. Including interactive classes with top landscape architects, designers, and guest lecturers; trips to historic sites; and the Garden's incomparable resources, this summer program more...
231LAN960 07/11 Mo 9:00am-5:00pm Merritt
Poccia
Arrington
Ruggiero
NYBG

Landscape Design I: Site Analysis and Schematic Design - ONLINE

This class will take place online. Registered students will receive login instructions.
Turning a vision into a plan is the designer's first challenge. Learn how to analyze existing landscapes and formulate the programmatic and functional requirements of a more...
224LAN401BO 06/01 We 6:00pm-9:00pm Arrington
ONLINE