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April 27, 2007 / Books

Bird-Safe Building Guidelines

Prepared for: New York City Audubon Society

**ASLA 2008 PROFESSIONAL AWARD – HONOR AWARD IN COMMUNICATIONS
**NYASLA 2007 PROFESSIONAL AWARD – HONOR AWARD IN COMMUNICATIONS

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BIRD-SAFE BUILDING GUIDELINES
New York City Audubon (2007)

Project Director

The Guidelines promote measures to protect birdlife in the planning, design, and operation stages of all types of buildings, in all settings. They also complement and inform today’s green building initiatives, especially the widely utilized LEED.

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January 23, 2007 / Books

Envisioning Gateway

Prepared for: The National Parks Conservation Association

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ENVISIONING GATEWAY
National Parks Conservation Association (2007)

Project Director

The report offers background information and analytical work for designers, planners, stakeholders and politicians in hopes of inspiring proposals that could transform the future of Gateway National Recreation Area.

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July 1, 2006 / Book Reviews

Book Review: Design with Culture

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FUTURE ANTERIOR volume III no.1
Columbia University GSAPP Historic Preservation Program (Summer 2006)

Design with Culture, a collection of essays edited by Charles Birnbaum and Mary Hughes, represents a cross-section of current thinking in landscape preservation. At the same time, it provides a retroactive history of the landscape preservation movement from 1890 to 1950, a period in which the American territory was facing heretofore unknown pressures relative to the modernization of the territory in the form of highway construction, mass car ownership, and large land use development patterns... 

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February 15, 2006 / Essays

Extreme Makeover

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THE ARCHITECTS NEWSPAPER no. 03

New York Architecture and Design

The beloved Greenwich Village space - and one of the most famous small parks in the world - is about to receive a redesign, courtesy of the city. Landscape architect Kate Orff critiques the newly unveiled redesign of this iconic urban space.

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December 22, 2005 / Books

Geothermal Larderello: Tuscany, Italy

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GEOTHERMAL LARDERELLO: TUSCANY, ITALY
Princeton Architectural Press (2005)

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May 6, 2005 / Essays

Beyond Landscape

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VOLUME no.1
Archis + AMO + C-LAB (2005)

Landscape always represents a compromise. As mediator of the effects of modernization, as organizer of parkhig lots and decorator of off-ramps, as "green" buffer of market development and developer’s olive branch, as fixer and go-between, we have had 200 years of taining in negotiating the natural and artificial. As the footprint of human settlement blankets more than a third of the earth’s territory - some put the figure at 95% - landscape is now charged with resolving dysfunctionalities that exist on a global scale...

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