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Danny Forster
Daniel Keith Forster (born September 19, 1977) is an American designer, television host, film and television producer, director, professor, and speaker. He is best known as the host of the Science Channel series Build It Bigger; as the creator and executive producer of the Emmy-winning Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero; and as the principal of DFDS, a New York-based design firm.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Forster grew up in Tenafly, New Jersey, the son of George, a neurologist, and Alice, a pediatric AIDS and hemophilia clinician. He attended The Elisabeth Morrow School and went on to graduate from the Dwight-Englewood School in 1995. After, he attended Wesleyan University, graduating with honors in 1999 with a BA in Art and Architectural History. After college, Forster worked as a real estate agent in New York City for several years. He was also the founder of UrbanFilter, which was later acquired by Citi Habitats. He then moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to matriculate at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He earned his Master's in Architecture in 2006. His master's thesis proposed a vertical urban campus containing both apartments and office space in a post-college collaborative living and working environment.[citation needed]
Forster's television career began in the midst of his studies at Harvard GSD, when he was hired to host a Discovery Channel series, Extreme Engineering, which was in its third season as a voiceover narrated documentary series about outsized construction projects underway around the world. The new episodes were a success for the Discovery Channel, which subsequently gave Forster his own show, Build It Bigger.
Build It Bigger ran for five seasons, during which it became the highest rated show on the Science Channel (where it moved after its first season), and won a 2010 Directors Guild of America Award. The show took Forster and a camera crew around the world to investigate pioneering architectural and engineering projects, and put them in cultural, historical, and environmental context. Build It Bigger brought Forster to more than fifty countries.[citation needed]
In 2007, Forster became an executive producer as well as the host of Build It Bigger. He also took on another project for Discovery, as the host and executive producer of a four-part series, Build It Bigger: Rebuilding Greensburg. Airing in 2008 on Planet Green, a network dedicated to sustainable living, Rebuilding Greensburg documented the struggle of a small town in Kansas not just to rebuild after a devastating tornado, but also to reinvent itself as the first LEED platinum-certified eco-town in America.[citation needed]
Forster's next major producing project was the Emmy Award-winning documentary miniseries Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero, which he created and co-executive produced with Steven Spielberg. Rising aired on the Discovery Channel and the Science Channel on September 11, 2011, ten years after the attack on the World Trade Center. In six one-hour episodes, filmed over a three-year period, the series chronicles the vast effort to rebuild and reimagine lower Manhattan in the wake of 9/11. Rising was one of five nominees for the 2012 Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Programming—Long Form, and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Graphic Design and Art Direction (Dbox), as well as won for Promotional Announcement.
In 2014, Forster was the executive producer and on-screen host of a three-part documentary series for Discovery International called How China Works.
The show focused on urbanization, innovation, and the growth of the middle class. The show examined, among other topics, the expansion of high-speed rail, China's fiscal policy in the face of the 2008 financial crisis, changes in the diet of the middle class, and the government's ambitious space program. How China Works received seven million hits in its first six hours of being available online.[citation needed]
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Danny Forster
Daniel Keith Forster (born September 19, 1977) is an American designer, television host, film and television producer, director, professor, and speaker. He is best known as the host of the Science Channel series Build It Bigger; as the creator and executive producer of the Emmy-winning Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero; and as the principal of DFDS, a New York-based design firm.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Forster grew up in Tenafly, New Jersey, the son of George, a neurologist, and Alice, a pediatric AIDS and hemophilia clinician. He attended The Elisabeth Morrow School and went on to graduate from the Dwight-Englewood School in 1995. After, he attended Wesleyan University, graduating with honors in 1999 with a BA in Art and Architectural History. After college, Forster worked as a real estate agent in New York City for several years. He was also the founder of UrbanFilter, which was later acquired by Citi Habitats. He then moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to matriculate at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He earned his Master's in Architecture in 2006. His master's thesis proposed a vertical urban campus containing both apartments and office space in a post-college collaborative living and working environment.[citation needed]
Forster's television career began in the midst of his studies at Harvard GSD, when he was hired to host a Discovery Channel series, Extreme Engineering, which was in its third season as a voiceover narrated documentary series about outsized construction projects underway around the world. The new episodes were a success for the Discovery Channel, which subsequently gave Forster his own show, Build It Bigger.
Build It Bigger ran for five seasons, during which it became the highest rated show on the Science Channel (where it moved after its first season), and won a 2010 Directors Guild of America Award. The show took Forster and a camera crew around the world to investigate pioneering architectural and engineering projects, and put them in cultural, historical, and environmental context. Build It Bigger brought Forster to more than fifty countries.[citation needed]
In 2007, Forster became an executive producer as well as the host of Build It Bigger. He also took on another project for Discovery, as the host and executive producer of a four-part series, Build It Bigger: Rebuilding Greensburg. Airing in 2008 on Planet Green, a network dedicated to sustainable living, Rebuilding Greensburg documented the struggle of a small town in Kansas not just to rebuild after a devastating tornado, but also to reinvent itself as the first LEED platinum-certified eco-town in America.[citation needed]
Forster's next major producing project was the Emmy Award-winning documentary miniseries Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero, which he created and co-executive produced with Steven Spielberg. Rising aired on the Discovery Channel and the Science Channel on September 11, 2011, ten years after the attack on the World Trade Center. In six one-hour episodes, filmed over a three-year period, the series chronicles the vast effort to rebuild and reimagine lower Manhattan in the wake of 9/11. Rising was one of five nominees for the 2012 Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Programming—Long Form, and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Graphic Design and Art Direction (Dbox), as well as won for Promotional Announcement.
In 2014, Forster was the executive producer and on-screen host of a three-part documentary series for Discovery International called How China Works.
The show focused on urbanization, innovation, and the growth of the middle class. The show examined, among other topics, the expansion of high-speed rail, China's fiscal policy in the face of the 2008 financial crisis, changes in the diet of the middle class, and the government's ambitious space program. How China Works received seven million hits in its first six hours of being available online.[citation needed]