Holt D

Holt D is an architect and urban designer with over 20 years of experience providing architectural planning, community, economic and sustainable development of public spaces, educational institutions, single and multi-family housing, libraries, museums and large-scale mixed-use developments. He is Founding Principal of Kent Anders Architects with offices in Florida and Stockholm Sweden. In 2017, he co-founded Resilient Power Puerto Rico and since then has spoken on behalf of the island’s needs at TEDx Dartmouth, The Architectural League, AIA Puerto Rico, UMass Club, Colegio de Arquitectos de Puerto Rico, Universidad Politécnica de Puerto Rico, and the Universitario Tecnológico de Bayamón’s Presidential Keynote. Holt D is the recipient of national and international design awards including a 2019 Presidential Citation by the American Institute of Architects and being named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People of 2019. Sits on the boards of The Buckminster Fuller Institute and The Isamu Noguchi Museum and chaired the AIANY Chapter Committee on Planning and Urban Design from 2013 to 2019. He has contributed essays on museums, public community spaces, and micro-housing, and is also the founder of Truck Product Architecture, Rock 12 Security Architecture, and Citizen Designer, a participatory planning, listening and advocacy effort. Holt teaches at Pratt Institute’s Graduate School of Planning and Placemaking, and since 2019 has taught as an adjunct at Columbia, Harvard, Parsons, Rice University, Washington University, and Syracuse.