Reimagining Risk
Turning Risk Around: Material Flows, Ecosystem Growth, and Urban Landscape Renewal
Paul Mankiewicz
May 1, 2008What if the threat of a large rise in sea levels inspired us to use living communities of marshes, mussels, seaweeds, and oysters to restore and expand the intertidal edge to catch sediments and resist storm surges? What if the need to counter urban heat islands led us to create a whole new approach to urban parks and water use, with green spaces, green streets, green roofs, and waste water recycling all forming a new cooling infrastructure? What if we thought about New York City’s waste stream as a kind of essential municipal resource, available in the quantities needed …

Posted on May 27.08 to Video, Podcasts, Events, Lectures   

Reimagining Risk: New Orleans
Matthew Berman and Andrew Kotchen, Allen Eskew, Carey Shea
Introduced and moderated by James Russell
April 3, 2008Post-Katrina, the need to rebuild has provided the catalyst for architects and planners both to restore and re-envision New Orleans’s urban landscape. Underpinning their efforts is the research and support provided by a growing and increasingly interconnected network of social agencies and philanthropic organizations. Is there visible progress? What initiatives have been successful? Why have some design schemes failed? What short-term solutions hold promise? What is the long-term picture for the preservation, restoration, and rebuilding of New Orleans?

Part 1 of 4: James S. Russell, who has written extensively about New Orleans as architecture critic …

Posted on Apr 21.08 to Video, Podcasts, Events, Lectures   

Reimagining Risk: New Orleans
Matthew Berman and Andrew Kotchen, Allen Eskew, Carey Shea
Introduced and moderated by James Russell
April 3, 2008Post-Katrina, the need to rebuild has provided the catalyst for architects and planners both to restore and re-envision New Orleans’s urban landscape. Underpinning their efforts is the research and support provided by a growing and increasingly interconnected network of social agencies and philanthropic organizations. Is there visible progress? What initiatives have been successful? Why have some design schemes failed? What short-term solutions hold promise? What is the long-term picture for the preservation, restoration, and rebuilding of New Orleans?

Part 2 of 4: Allen Eskew of the New Orleans firm Eskew + Dumez + Ripple, discusses some …

Posted on Apr 21.08 to Video, Podcasts, Events, Lectures   

Reimagining Risk: New Orleans
Matthew Berman and Andrew Kotchen, Allen Eskew, Carey Shea
Introduced and moderated by James Russell
April 3, 2008Post-Katrina, the need to rebuild has provided the catalyst for architects and planners both to restore and re-envision New Orleans’s urban landscape. Underpinning their efforts is the research and support provided by a growing and increasingly interconnected network of social agencies and philanthropic organizations. Is there visible progress? What initiatives have been successful? Why have some design schemes failed? What short-term solutions hold promise? What is the long-term picture for the preservation, restoration, and rebuilding of New Orleans?

Part 3 of 4: Matthew Berman and Andrew Kotchen, principals of the New York City firm Workshop …

Posted on Apr 21.08 to Video, Podcasts, Events, Lectures   

Reimagining Risk: New Orleans
Matthew Berman and Andrew Kotchen, Allen Eskew, Carey Shea
Introduced and moderated by James Russell
April 3, 2008Post-Katrina, the need to rebuild has provided the catalyst for architects and planners both to restore and re-envision New Orleans’s urban landscape. Underpinning their efforts is the research and support provided by a growing and increasingly interconnected network of social agencies and philanthropic organizations. Is there visible progress? What initiatives have been successful? Why have some design schemes failed? What short-term solutions hold promise? What is the long-term picture for the preservation, restoration, and rebuilding of New Orleans?

Part 4 of 4: James S. Russell, architecture critic for Bloomberg, moderates a Q&A session with Allen …

Posted on Apr 21.08 to Video, Podcasts, Events, Lectures   

Reimagining Risk: Beirut
Amale Andraos, Ziad Jamaleddine, Hashim Sarkis
Friday, March 7The political turmoil for so long associated with Beirut has turned the city into the very image of precariousness and destruction. While these attributes seem to stand in opposition to the stabilizing and constructive pursuits usually associated with architecture, the city has generated a very rich architectural discourse around its different moments of destruction and reconstruction: about how architects should address war and reconstruction; how rapid development produces its own precariousness; how architects operate in a highly speculative environment with too many variables; how the imbalances of development between different parts of the country generate other forms of risk; how architects achieve resilience by …

Posted on Apr 08.08 to Video, Podcasts, Events, Lectures   

Reimagining Risk: Beirut
Amale Andraos, Ziad Jamaleddine, Hashim Sarkis
Friday, March 7The political turmoil for so long associated with Beirut has turned the city into the very image of precariousness and destruction. While these attributes seem to stand in opposition to the stabilizing and constructive pursuits usually associated with architecture, the city has generated a very rich architectural discourse around its different moments of destruction and reconstruction: about how architects should address war and reconstruction; how rapid development produces its own precariousness; how architects operate in a highly speculative environment with too many variables; how the imbalances of development between different parts of the country generate other forms of risk; how architects achieve resilience by …

Posted on Apr 08.08 to Video, Podcasts, Events, Lectures   

Reimagining Risk: Beirut
Amale Andraos, Ziad Jamaleddine, Hashim Sarkis
Friday, March 7The political turmoil for so long associated with Beirut has turned the city into the very image of precariousness and destruction. While these attributes seem to stand in opposition to the stabilizing and constructive pursuits usually associated with architecture, the city has generated a very rich architectural discourse around its different moments of destruction and reconstruction: about how architects should address war and reconstruction; how rapid development produces its own precariousness; how architects operate in a highly speculative environment with too many variables; how the imbalances of development between different parts of the country generate other forms of risk; how architects achieve resilience by …

Posted on Apr 08.08 to Video, Podcasts, Events, Lectures   

Reimagining Risk: Beirut
Amale Andraos, Ziad Jamaleddine, Hashim Sarkis
Friday, March 7

The political turmoil for so long associated with Beirut has turned the city into the very image of precariousness and destruction. While these attributes seem to stand in opposition to the stabilizing and constructive pursuits usually associated with architecture, the city has generated a very rich architectural discourse around its different moments of destruction and reconstruction: about how architects should address war and reconstruction; how rapid development produces its own precariousness; how architects operate in a highly speculative environment with too many variables; how the imbalances of development between different parts of the country generate other forms of risk; how architects achieve resilience by …

Posted on Apr 08.08 to Video, Podcasts, Events, Lectures   

Reimagining Risk: Rwanda
Catherine Leslie, Alfred Ndabarasa, Carl Worthington
Moderated by Andrew Blum
Thursday, February 28, 2008
The Urban Center, New York City

Carl Worthington, Director of Urban Design and Planning at OZ Architecture, and Catherine Leslie, Project Manager at Tetra Tech and Executive Director of Engineers Without Borders – USA, will discuss the new master plan and building efforts for Kigali, Rwanda. The master plan is part of the Rwandan government’s response to rapid urbanization, and seeks investment in human capital, information technology, and economic growth as bulwarks against population growth, inadequate infrastructure, poverty, and a history of conflict. Alfred Ndabarasa, second counselor to the Republic of Rwanda’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations, will give a …

Posted on Mar 27.08 to Video, Podcasts, Events, Lectures