“We juxtaposed industrial artifacts with Hudson River School paintings,” says Jeanne Haffner, associate curator at the New-York Historical Society. 1870), showing just how prominent and popular their work was at the time. The artists of the Hudson River School were also among the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (est. The Hudson River School, a movement started by artist Thomas Cole in 1825, was brought to prominence after his death in 1848 by painters such as Frederic Edwin Church, Asher Brown Durand, and Sanford Robinson Gifford. This early Industrial era was the height of aesthetic and recreational appreciation of the Hudson River.
Hudson Rising begins in the mid-1800s, with displays of maps, paintings and artifacts. By coming together across disciplines and interests, communities protected and rebuilt a natural resource and changed the course of environmental policy in the United States. The history of the Hudson as told in Hudson Rising and reflected in Living Breakwaters is an important, living example of collaboration in the face of political, natural, and economic challenges. Orff is an associate professor at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation’s (GSAPP). The show concludes on an optimistic note, with a forward-looking climate adaptation project called Living Breakwaters by landscape architecture firm SCAPE, which was founded by Earth Institute faculty member Kate Orff. Hudson Rising follows the environmental history of the Hudson River and the surrounding areas from the early days of the Industrial Revolution to modern times, hitting on important moments in the river’s pollution, conservation, and aesthetic appreciation. It’s an aesthetic object, an ecological habitat, a site for water sports, a means of transportation, an obstacle to be bridged, a source of energy, a sewer, and a threat as sea levels rise, along with dozens of other things throughout history.Ī new show at the New-York Historical Society explores the many facets of the Hudson River through the lens of environmental conservation and shows how important it was for all these facets to come together in order to protect the river we know and love today. The project is being implemented by the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery.View of the Hudson River from the Palisades in New Jersey, with New York City in the background.
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to seek cutting edge ideas for coastal resilience in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Living Breakwaters was initially developed by SCAPE Landscape Architecture for the Rebuild by Design (RBD) Competition, a design competition held by the U.S. The breakwaters will also be constructed with “reef ridges” and “reef streets” that provide diverse habitat space, with live oyster installation expected to follow construction completion in 2024. Informed by extensive hydrodynamic modeling, the breakwaters are also designed to slow and, eventually, reverse decades of beach erosion along the Tottenville shoreline. The breakwaters are designed to reduce the impact of climate-intensified weather events on the low-lying coastal community of Tottenville, which experienced some of the most damaging waves in the region and tragic loss of life during Superstorm Sandy in 2012. Living Breakwaters is an innovative coastal green infrastructure project consisting of 2,400 linear feet of near-shore breakwaters-partially submerged structures built of stone and ecologically-enhanced concrete. This event will include visual and narrative presentations and a question / answer period to encourage audience participation. The presentation panel will have senior designer, Tami Banh of SCAPE Landscape Architecture speaking about the design and Matthew Clark, the Baird senior coastal resident engineer in charge of the construction speaking about the challenges of implementation. Paul Alter, RA, AIA, Principal Architect with SKOLNICK Architecture + Design Partnership, sailor/captain of the 47’ sloop “Signorina” out of Sag Harbor, NY, lighthouse enthusiast, environmentalist and passionate appreciator of islands, the ocean and global sustainability will moderate a presentation/discussion on Sunday, Apabout the Living Breakwaters Project which is currently being constructed off the southern coast of Staten Island.
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