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What is Design Now? Unmaking the Landscape
Author(s) -
Orff Kate
Publication year - 2020
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.2531
Subject(s) - architecture , landscape design , landscape architecture , environmental ethics , sociology , studio , urban design , resilience (materials science) , history , civil engineering , archaeology , engineering , visual arts , art , philosophy , physics , thermodynamics
Our era of ecological resilience and ecocide requires much more holistic and inclusive thinking about social, civic space. Kate Orff is a co‐director of the Center for Resilient Cities at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in New York, and founder of landscape and urban design practice SCAPE. Here she outlines the studio's proposal for Alameda Creek, which removes the defensive infrastructures currently restraining the natural forces of the San Francisco Bay Area with the aim of reconnecting its urban and rural ecologies.