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Newer Orleans: A Shared Space

April 29, 2006 - July 30, 2006

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Ben Van Berkel’s of the UN Studio’s proposal for Newer Orleans.
© UN Studio
In its U.S. debut, Newer Orleans—A Shared Space questions whether the iconic city could have a different future in which architecture can serve to create a new sense of social commitment, political involvement, and engagement with the landscape following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

Rebuilding in New Orleans became an international topic immediately following the storm. With some of the most advanced levee systems in the world, Dutch engineers, water managers, city planners, and architects has extensive knowledge to share with their American counterparts. Reengineering of systems and reshaping of the landscape in New Orleans could be informed by a cross-cultural collaboration.

In February 2006, the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) invited three Dutch and three American design firms to develop visions for the city of New Orleans that addressed the water and the land, the social and the political, and a possible architectural language for future structures. The responses proposed symbolic and shared space at three scales—the neighborhood, the city, and the wider region.

This exhibition chronicles the six proposals which were originally on public display at the NAi. The Dutch firm MDRDV and American practice Huff + Gooden Architects designed schools that explored the neighborhood scale. At the city level, Ben Van Berkel of UN Studio and Morphosis designed a central "mediatheque." Hargreaves Associates and Dutch architect Adriaan Geuze of West 8 responded with a regional exploration of the landscape. Each of the designs aims to deepen the relationship between geographical, architectural, and public structures. 

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Huff + Gooden Architects design proposal for the exhibition Newer Orleans.
Digital rendering Huff + Gooden Architects

Read more about Newer Orleans on the National Geographic web site.

Sponsors

Newer Orleans—A Shared Space was organized by the Netherlands Architecture Institute, Tulane University School of Architecture, and Artforum Magazine and made possible by Shell Oil company, the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands, and the Royal Netherlands Embassy.

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Credits

Curated by Emiliano Gandolfi of the Netherlands Architecture Institute.