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 Göksel is a multidisciplinary designer working across landscape architecture, urbanism, and the public realm. Her experience includes parks and public spaces, cultural and institutional landscapes, waterfronts, and urban districts at scales ranging from intimate sites to large urban frameworks. Her practice is grounded in rigorous design research and inquiry, with a curiosity for what places can reveal: from unexpected tensions and relationships to joy and wonder. This extends to the spatial dimensions of urban conflict, particularly around questions of memory, identity, and belonging in Lebanon and Palestine.

Zeynep holds dual master’s degrees in Landscape Architecture and City and Regional Planning from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College. Before joining dwg., she worked at Snøhetta, Sasaki and Marpillero Pollak Architects. Her experience beyond design practice includes nonprofit development and cultural work, including at Storefront for Art and Architecture.

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. 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. 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.