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As the Levee Breaks: Entrusting the Surreal Mississippi
Author(s) -
Russell Elizabeth Williams
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2280
Subject(s) - levee , power (physics) , work (physics) , archaeology , law , environmental ethics , history , geography , engineering , cartography , political science , philosophy , physics , mechanical engineering , quantum mechanics
New Orleans‐based architect and landscape architect Elizabeth Williams Russell spends her days working in the hinterland of the Mississippi. Fully aware that the river's massive power cannot be tamed for long, she has developed ways to speculate and work with it in a surreal way – as she explains here.