Jana VanderGoot, AFAAR, RA

Jana VanderGoot is a registered architect who works at the intersection of architecture, landscape, and resilient urbanism. Her work focuses on the ways that buildings act as extensions of urban ecological networks, specifically where this applies to vegetated landscapes and the problem of pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

VanderGoot is Principle Investigator (PI) on several funded projects, including a National Science Foundation Grant called "Paper Streets" and a 2024 USDA Forest Service Wood Innovation Grant. VanderGoot was the recipient of the Rieger Graham Prize, ICAA affiliated fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. More about these projects can be found on her project websites:

Open-Access wNLT: www.wnltdlt.org

Original Constructions: www.originalconstructions.org

Low Heat: www.lowheat.org 

VanderGoot's book Architecture and the Forest Aesthetic: A New Look at Design and Resilient Urbanism was published by Routledge in 2018.

 Architecture and the Forest Aesthetic is a catalog of unlikely projects curated by a creative mind that finds connections across types and practices….VanderGoot explores the complex, strange power of the forest as the locus of community, analytical and construction technique and cultural meaning….Unafraid to address aesthetics as a significant ethical concern, and willing to examine the entanglements of human and non-human life, VanderGoot’s catalog surprised this reader with its novel juxtapositions.
- Elizabeth Meyer, Merrill D. Peterson Professor Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia School of Architecture 

  The conservation future of the earth will be rooted in the interdependence of nature and society realized through an interweaving of forests, human communities, and agriculture. Jana VanderGoot opens our imagination to that vision and buoys the spirit through a thought-provoking exploration of that future in the landscape today. The result is a marvelous and important volume.
- David Foster, Director, Harvard Forest, Harvard University, USA 

Iconic Projects (Flickr Album)