Daniel teaches studio, site engineering, advanced graphics and green roof research seminars in the Landscape Architecture program. He is a registered landscape architect in British Columbia and Germany as well as a horticulturalist and gardener. In 2007 he founded the research group greenskins lab at UBC (www.greenskinslab.sala.ubc.ca). Current research focuses on the integration of green roofs as part of a holistic system for stormwater management. Daniel regularly publishes, forthcoming titles are: Some Thoughts on the Internationalisation of Landscape Architecture in: Rainer Schmidt - City of Landscape. (Birkhaeuser 2012) and Representing Landscapes: A Visual Collection of Landscape Architectural Drawings, with M. Beall, Nadia Amoroso Editor (Routledge March 2012). In addition, Daniel and his team conduct expertise studies and consult professionally.
Over the past 20 years, Daniel has practiced in Great Britain, Japan, the United States, Germany, Italy, Austria and China. From 1995 to 2000, he was project architect of the award winning Daimler-Chrysler Green Roof Project at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. Before moving to Vancouver, he ran his own landscape architecture firm in Berlin from 1999 to 2007, and was the co-founder of a firm in Shanghai in 2004.