Professional Consultant
Mr. Daniel Oh is an Urban Designer who has extensive knowledge of how urban design can serve to reinstate the power of the physical landscape. His research has been focused on re-instating the values of public open space through application of sentiment and smart technology. Aside from his research and teaching, he has been actively involved in a variety of urban design and master planning projects, ranging from urban to rural and from small plaza to Central Business Districts. His portfolio of urban design projects include the National Planning and Development Strategies for the Kingdom of Bahrain, and Kent Thameside Ebbsfleet Master Plan in the Thames Gateway of London.
Former professor with the Department of Architecture, Korea University Mr. Oh has also worked in the London and Hong Kong office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, where he was involved in a number of major international projects in Europe, Middle East, and South Asia. In the AECOM New York office, he was involved in master planning projects in USA and Eastern Europe.
Since 2010, Mr. Oh has dedicated his time to teaching and research on urban regeneration that stresses value of social and economical added-values of urban developments with application of technology and user-focused design that bring meaningful changes in the process of urban development and urban planning.
Mr. Oh is registered under the American Institute Certified Planners (AICP) and Leading Energy and Environmental Design (LEED AP) as well as being affiliated with the American Planning Association (APA), American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), Board Member of the Urban Design Institute of Korea (UDIK), and as a Board Member of the Institute of Smart City and Architecture (ISCA)
Mr. Oh is a recipient of numerous honors and awards such as the Special Appreciation award -Korea Timber Construction Promotion Agency, the Best Design-National Landscape Design Competition, the 2015 CTL Teaching Award, the American Society of Landscape-Architects Certificate of Merit, and the Fred B. Barlow Memorial Award.
He received his Master of Urban Planning with concentration in Ecology and Environmental Planning at Harvard University, Master of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University, and his Bachelor of Arts in Landscape Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley.