News

This week’s PBS NewsHour Episode focuses on resiliency in New York Harbor, featuring Kate’s / SCAPE’s vision for rebuilding mussels, oysters and ecological systems around New York Harbor as a resilience strategy, to prevent erosion and mitigate storm damage in the future.

SCAPE’s founder Kate is the featured speaker for the Sylvester Baxter Lecture series at the Harvard Graduate School of Design next Tuesday, February 21.

The 2016 Lisbon Architecture Triennal, “The Form of Form,” features drawings from the Ecological Atlas in Petrochemical America, a book by Richard Misrach and Kate Orff (Aperture, 2012) in one of the four total exhibitions.

On Wednesday, the DDC Design Talks series will feature Pippa and Gena, who will share SCAPE’s experience leading the design of contemporary infrastructure.

This Thursday, Pippa will speak on the opening panel for the Symposium on Water Resilient Urban and Regional Development at the German Center for Research and Innovation.

The 6th CAC meeting on the Living Breakwaters and Tottenville Shoreline Protection Project was held on January 25th at PS6 in Staten Island.

SCAPE’s work is featured in Christophe Girot’s comprehensive book, The Course of Landscape Architecture.

Gena will speak to a range of participatory and science-based strategies through the lenses of SCAPE’s practice at the University of Arkansas on Monday, February 6.

The SCAPE team recently traveled to Israel for a site visit to the Be’er Sheva Quarry and meeting with the Client team.

Coastline cities across the country are embracing the evidence of climate change and fortifying buildings and infrastructure against rising sea levels.