mar 5–6 2010
Kate Orff presents at MillionTreesNYC Symposium
JAMAICA BAY AS CATALYST
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
mar 3, 2010
SCAPE / RISING CURRENTS featured in New York Magazine
WHEN THE WATER RISES - Five Architects' Plans for Managing a Globally Warmed Future
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Kate Orff's essay published in China
Landscape Urbanism and the Strategy of the Earthwork
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OYSTER-TECTURE featured in The Architects Newspaper!
AS THE TIDE TURNS
Rising Currents teams share flood-averting plans
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Read about Oyster-tecture in the New Yorker
sep 3, 2010
DEPT. OF CLARIFICATION: EARL VERSUS THE OYSTERS
By SAMANTHA HENIG
"...The oyster reefs, as imagined by Kate Orff, a landscape architect, would ease the impact of storms and filter pollution in the water. (Not addressed: who or what will filter out horrifying creatures in our tap water.) Orff’s fantastical future also includes a FLUPSY (for “flowing upweller system”) parade of oyster-filled boats along the Gowanus (which she bills as a cultural perk) and the Shuck Shack, where an imagined menu offers oyster po’ boys for seven dollars and Sixpoint Sweet Action for five, leading one to think that either a booming oyster future is within immediate reach or that Orff’s idealism extends to curbing inflation."
continue reading "Earl Versus the Oysters" at NewYorker.com
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