Hillary Brown, FAIA, is Professor of Architecture at the City College of New York (CCNY).
She directs CCNY’s interdisciplinary master’s program, Sustainability in the Urban Environment, developed with the College’s Engineering and Science Divisions. As a former Assistant Commissioner, Hillary founded New York City’s Office of Sustainable Design in 1997, developing its High Performance Building and High Performance Infrastructure Guidelines. Since 2001, her consulting practice, New Civic Works, has engaged public and institutional clients in greening their capital programs. Hillary currently serves on the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment under the National Research Council of the National Academies. She is a Fellow of the Post-Carbon Institute.
Her two books, Next Generation Infrastructure (Island Press 2014) and Infrastructural Ecologies, (MIT Press 2017) describe alternative, integrated approaches to infrastructure development. Case studies from around the world reveal the cross-cutting benefits of multipurpose, low-carbon, resilient infrastructure systems conceived as tightly coordinated with natural and social systems.