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From: "Architexturez." <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:57:37 +0530
| now that was fast. talking heads get going
| wonder why everyone wants to 'educate' architects
| these days? are we classifiable and dumb? read
| the ascendancy of the NGO and historically informed!
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Reviving a City: The Design Perspective
By ROBIN POGREBIN
Published: September 14, 2005
Even as the federal government and local developers push to resurrect
New Orleans as quickly as possible in the wake of Hurricane Katrina,
some architects and urban planners are contemplating the larger question
of what form the city should take - whether restored, reimagined or
something in between.
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Ms. Remson of the architectural institute said: "We're going to try to
educate our architects about the technology available now for making
things flood-proof. So much will have to be torn down, we're going to
want to build better."
cont'd...
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/14/arts/design/14desi.html?pagewanted=all