Columbia University GSAPP
Fall 2009

It is crucial to understand now that we are all designers. Every square millimeter of the planet and its terrestrial, aquatic, and climactic systems has been made and remade by human hands. The question becomes, what is your design expertise?  The Earth Institute / Columbia GSAPP Forum on the future of the Built Environment explores ideas of sustainable design and the future of the city, drawing from the deep and diverse experience of the Earth Institute and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. The aim of the forum is to bring together the realms of science and design to address complex questions of environment and development with fresh thinking and a creative approach grounded in research, experimentation, and pilot projects.  We will ask how to address sustainability on global, regional, and local scales – with a focus on the role of cities and on ideas that work.

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Summer 2009 / Advanced Architecture Design Studio / Columbia GSAPP
Kate Orff w/ Julia Watson

THE NEW ZOO
Designing global co-habitats

This studio will aim to bring new thinking to global wildlife conservation. We will map the interrelated phenomena of local formal and informal economies, governance, and wildlife patterns at pilot sites around the globe, and visualize future scenarios for positive change. The field of conservation is evolving from a philosophy of solely protecting “wild areas” to engaging local community programs and economies. In addition, in the last couple of years, the concept of “conservation-reliant species,” which require active management to survive, has emerged. We will work across the fields of architecture, landscape, biology, sociology and economics towards a synthetic approach to these environment and development issues with an understanding that humanity and the animal world share a common fate on a crowded planet.

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Spring 2009

Two Urban Paradigms: Vienna and Mumbai

Urban Design Studio III
with Michael Conard, Peter Kempf, Geeta Mehta

Spring 2008

Bangkok Carbon City

Urban Design Studio III
with Michael Conard, Brian McGrath, Victoria Marshall, Choon Choi, Sarah Brennan

Fall 2006

The WATER studio: Jamaica Bay and Yonkers

Urban Design Studio II
with Michael Conard, Sandro Marpillero, Petia Morozov

Spring 2006

Center-Edge Transformations: Rome and Seoul
Urban Design Studio III

with Richard Plunz and Michael Conard

 

Spring 2005

Re-Centering Barcelona

Urban Design Studio III

with Richard Plunz and Michael Conard

Spring 2004

Urban Concentration / Sprawl / Infrastructure: Bucharest and Brisbane

Urban Design Studio III

with Richard Plunz, Michael Conard, Moji Baratloo

     

Spring 2003

Two Bio-Regions: Bangkok and Tuscany

Urban Design Studio III
with Richard Plunz, Michael Conard, Moji Baratloo





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Summer 2008

New Natures: Visualizing carboNYC

Advanced Architecture Studio

with Elizabeth Stoel

 

Summer 2007

Park Here

Advanced Architecture Studio

with Elizabeth Stoel

Spring 2007

Dunsink Urban Landscape

Advanced Architecture Studio

with Shelley MacNamara and Gerard Carty

 

Fall 2005

Wasteland: Re-Engineering Willets Point, Queens
Advanced Architecture Studio

with Laurie Hawkinson and Nickolas Themelis

Fall 2004

The WASTE Studio: Re-Engineering the South Bronx Waterfront

Advanced Architecture Studio

with Laurie Hawkinson, Nicholas Themelis, Karsten Millrath

  

Fall 2004

Gowanus Canal Eco-Retrieval: Public Place Site
Comprehensive  Studio V
with Richard Plunz and Trish Cullingan

 

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Columbia University GSAPP
Fall 2002 - present

This seminar aims to explore how the physical, material and conceptual understanding of landscape can enrich current forms of architectural and urban design practice, and to introduce landscape thinking into students' design vocabularies. Given that topography and ecology are two discourses that increasingly impinge on the fields of architecture and urban design today, it may be argued that landscape in the broadest sense of the term begins to assume a new stature as a design discipline, both literally and metaphorically. This is particularly apparent where landform and built form are combined together in infrastructural interventions at an urban or regional scale...

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