The devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 highlighted the vulnerability of urban coastal areas to the effects of catastrophic storms and climate change. Coastal communities must adapt planning strategies to mitigate the increasing risk posed by these natural hazards.

Supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, Structures of Coastal Resilience (SCR) brings together a distinguished group of engineers, scientists, architects, landscape architects, and scholars. Four landscape design teams based at City College of New York, Harvard University, Princeton University, and the University of Pennsylvania have generated in-depth master planning proposals for four distinct sites on the North Atlantic—Norfolk VA, Atlantic City NJ, Jamaica Bay NY, and Narragansett Bay RI. The design proposals have been influenced and informed by the concurrent work of the climate science team based at Princeton University.

This presentation and panel discussion will introduce exciting new methods to predict sea level rise and storm surge inundation risk as well as imaginative design proposals that combine and reinvent landscape and planning strategies including salt marsh expansion, house-lifting, canal building, topographical transformation, and coastal forest restoration.

Panelists:
Guy Nordenson, Professor, Princeton University School of Architecture, and Founder, Guy Nordenson and Associates
Michael Oppenheimer, Director, Program in Science Technology and Environmental Policy (STEP), and Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences, Princeton University
Paul Lewis, AIA, Associate Professor, architecural Design, Directorof Graduate Studies, M.Arch. Programs, Princeton University School of Architecture, and Principal, Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis (LTL) Architecture
Catherine Seavitt, Associate Professor, CUNY’s City College of New York, and Founder, Catherine Seavitt Studio
Anuradha Mathur, Professor and Associate Chair,  Landscape Architecure Department, University of Pennsylvania School of Design
Dilip da Cunha, Adjunct Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Design

When: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25

Where: The Center for Architecture

Organized by: AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee & ASLA NY
Price: Free for students with valid id, AIA and ASLA members; $10 for non-members

Please register here: http://cfa.aiany.org/index.php?section=calendar&evtid=7789