Kate Orff's latest book, Gateway, Visions for an Urban National Park, has finally been published!
Prepared in collaboration with the National Parks Conservation Association, the Van Alen Institute, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, the book was co-authored by Alexander Brash, Jamie Hand and Kate Orff, and can be purchased here.
Gateway, Visions for an Urban National Park. New York: Princeton, 2011.
Columbia University GSAPP
Fall 2009 - Fall 2011
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.
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.
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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