The Case Studies in Contemporary Urbansim, Landscape Architecture and Design had an exit essay of sorts, which I wrote this time last year. A portion is represented here: One of the most important lessons offered in this course is that urbanism is a study of four dimensions, not simply three. We covered a few examples of... Continue Reading →
Another project from Landscape/Urbanism Case Studies, this time in New York City's harbor. A chain of floating levees would serve as pedestrian paths and also convert tidal currents into electrical currents. During a storm event the turbines would close and the levees would rise with the storm surge. This project completed with Rebecca Fischman and Tadashi Kikuno
Another look at a group project from last year, this time located in Venezuela. Guyana City represents much of what city planners got wrong in the 1950s, with enormous roads and acres of median strips dividing neighborhoods. This scheme, completed with Rebecca Fischman and Tadashi Kikuno, had a series of stadia proposed along the large... Continue Reading →
A year ago I took a very interesting class called Case Studies in Contemporary Urbanism, Landscape Architecture and Design, taught by Jonathan Barnett, David Gouverneur and Aron Cohen. As part of the class students broke off into interdisciplinary teams (the class was a good mix of architects, landscape architects and urban planning students) to complete... Continue Reading →
Adam Achrati 