Danny Forster

Daniel Keith "Danny" 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. Both are now deceased. He attended the Elisabeth Morrow School and went on to graduate from the Dwight-Englewood School in 1995. He then attended Wesleyan University, graduating with honors in 1999, with a BA in Art and Architectural History. After college, Forster worked for several years in New York City, as a real estate agent and the founder of UrbanFilter, a web-based real estate start-up subsequently bought by CitiHabitiats. 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.

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