ARCH 1450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: East Boston, Hurricane Harvey
2 Feb 2018
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Has a background in landscape architecture, is a deign critic. Is a professor a northeastern university, teaching history and theory, with an emphasis on contemporary landscape architecture. Studied at the harvard graduate school of design. Her projects range from areas of a city to a furniture in a public space. Landscapes must be flexible for all possible futures and uses of the space. There must be hybrid solutions for all project scales. Created comfortable chairs, that were flexible and open. Went through many prototyping to small scale models, 3d printing, to large scale individual pieces. Added public furniture to engage the city with the river. More than furniture, designed to force water flow in 1 direction for flooding purposes. Had to interact with other architects, owners of buildings and the city gov. Redesigning and protecting the waterfront from the rise of sea levels while maintaining 50% open space in all properties in the front line.
