"Swimming to Manhattan" Exhibition
The Center for Architecture
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The Winter Term ‘Swimming to Manhattan’ for third-year students at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam takes the form of a competition that features competing teams, a critical jury, and a real prize. For two intensive weeks, students organised themselves into interdisciplinary teams (Architecture, Urbanism, Landscape architecture) and worked on intelligent and imaginative concepts for the Upper Bay in New York. Ever since Hurricane Katrina, this bay, which is connected to the sea, has been the subject of widespread attention. Plans to build a flood barrier in the bay have been drawn up, and a number of projects have been prepared for different parts of the coastal zone around the bay. Protection against rising water levels plays a major role in all these designs. The challenge for the Winter Term concerned the bay itself, the water.
Twelve teams of students took part in the competition, assisted by six consultants that the students could consult during the project: Luc Vrolijks (Urban Progress), Thomas Oles (lector Living Landscape Amsterdam Academy of Architecture), Lodewijk van Nieuwenhuijze (H+N+S Architects), John Lonsdale (Architect), Ronald Rietveld (Landscape Architect) and Jeroen Aerts (VU University Amsterdam Department Risk Insurance and Water Management). The jury consisted of Aart Oxenaar, Machiel Spaan, Marieke Timmermans, and Cees van der Veeker (Lola Landscape Architects).
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from June 10, 2011 to July 11, 2011