Discipline: Architecture – design

Daniel Hall

Discipline: Architecture – design
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2024

Daniel Hall is a licensed architect practicing in New York City. He received his B.Arch. from The Cooper Union and a Post Professional M.A. from Princeton University. His recent work focuses on the intersection of architecture and early childhood education—projects that aim to produce new methods of drawing and creating animations as the basis for expanding our conceptions of both the built and non-built environment and their formative roles in early childhood development.

At MacDowell he expanded this work through the creation of a construction set of drawings for a prototypical one-room classroom that simultaneously functions as a children's book; an interweaving of standard architectural conventions; and the unfettered imagination of children’s literature.

Studios

New Hampshire

Daniel Hall worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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