Hillary Brown is an American architect, and professor at City College of New York. She is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. She won a Berlin Prize.^[1]

She graduated from Oberlin College and Yale University.^[2] As assistant commissioner at New York City's Department of Design and Construction, Brown founded the Office of Sustainable Design in 1996.^[3] While working for New York City's Department of Design and Construction, the firm published the City of New York's High Performance Building Guidelines in Spring of 1999.^[4] Brown is founding principal of the firm New Civic Works.^[5] She is a member of the National Academy of Construction.^[6]

Her work appeared in Places Journal.^[7]

• Infrastructural Ecologies: Alternative Development Models in Emerging Economies. MIT Press, 2017.
• Next Generation Infrastructure: Principles for Post-Industrial Public Works. Island Press, 2014.^[8]
• Co-Author, Managing Editor. High Performance Infrastructure Guidelines, City of New York, 2005.
• Co-Author. State and Local Government Green Building Toolkit, U.S. Green Building Council, 2002.
• Co-Author, Managing Editor. High Performance Building Guidelines, City of New York, 1999.