apr 2, 2012 / 6:30 PM
Kate Orff lectures at Columbia GSAPP
Helen Caldicott and Kate Orff in Conversation
Monday, April 2 / 6:30PM / Wood Auditorium
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Kate Orff lectures at LSU
PETROCHEMICAL AMERICA
March 26 / 5 PM / LSU Art + Design Building RM 103
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Urban Design to Brazil
Kate Orff is off to Brazil this week as part of the urban design studio teaching team at Columbia University
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Oyster-tecture featured in Brooklyn Daily Eagle
mar 27, 2010
ARCHITECT DESIGNS UNDERWATER 'CITY OF OYSTERS FOR GOWANUS
By MIKE WEISS
Published: March 26, 2010
...while the digital screens and elaborate models of the other four teams filling the museum’s exhibition hall seemed very ambitious, there was something more down to earth and “do-able” about Orff’s design – reflecting a focus on the main character in her plan, the humble but underappreciated oyster.
“The oyster is an amazing creature,” Orff said.
...On a less-ambitious scale, Orff’s Oyster-Tecture project is something she thinks could actually be built and could start improving water quality and life in Brooklyn immediately.
“My goal is absolutely not conceptual, there’s nothing here that’s off the moon,” she said emphatically. “We could start tomorrow.”
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