Design
Reviving New York Harbor With Oysters: Why Hasn't This Happened Yet?
It's been more than two years since Columbia University professor Kate Orff made waves with her "Oyster-tecture" proposal. She's still pushing.
Consider the oyster, as M.F.K. Fisher urged. It is a creature worth considering.
When landscape architect and Columbia University professor Kate Orff and her colleagues from SCAPE Studio proposed a plan to help remediate the health of New York Harbor using what they called "Oyster-tecture," they got a lot of people’s attention (including mine).