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Oyster Tecture and the Next Hurricane
Kate Orff is an assistant professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She's also the founding principal of SCAPE, a landscape architecture and urban design office based in Manhattan.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1 min readKate Orff is an assistant professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She's also the founding principal of SCAPE, a landscape architecture and urban design office based in Manhattan. She pioneered Oyster Tecture, a concept in which oyster beds are installed near low-lying shorelines to absorb surging waters and simultaneously filter water.
