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| #e.22815 | Monday 6:30PM to 8:00PM
February 4,
2013 | CM | 1.50 |
Sweet & Salt: Water and the DutchNational Building MuseumWashington, DC Tracy Metz, author of Sweet & Salt: Water and the Dutch, addresses the complex and inescapable relationship between water and the Netherlands as sea levels rise, rivers swell, and storms and droughts multiply. Sweet & Salt shows innovative solutions of Dutch design practice for a new relationship to water and offers a new perspective on living with water in the future. Participants will learn about the planning and design history of the massive public dike system in the Netherlands.
Participants will learn about the Rotterdam Climate Initiative. The initiative includes planning projects that will be applied to Rotterdam's built environment that will mitigate the affects stronger storms and rising sea levels on the low-lying city and improve the health, safety and welfare of residents. Participants will learn about the planning, design and construction of the Waterblad de Wendel, which is an artificial stream to capture runoff from the towns of Almelo, Enschede, and Hengelo in the Netherlands. The structure is modeled after a meandering river system and improves the quality of life for nearby residents by reducing flooding.
Participants will learn about the design and construction of the Floating Pavilion in Rotterdam. The project intended as a pilot for building on water and a first step towards floating urbanization in response to rising sea levels due to climate change.
More Instructors: Tracy Metz Tracy Metz, a native of California, is a journalist and author based in the Netherlands. She writes about architecture, landscape and urban issues for the quality national newspaper NRC Handelsblad and is an international correspondent for the American magazine Architectural Record. She is affiliated with the Harvard Graduate School of Design, as a Loeb Fellow ’07 and currently as a visiting fellow, and is a board member of the John Adams Institute for cultural exchange between the US and the Netherlands. She is the author of a number of books, the newest of which is Sweet & Salt: Water and the Dutch. In it she tells the story of the ‘extreme makeover’ of the Dutch landscape to accommodate a new relationship to water in times of a changing climate. After Katrina and Sandy, the world is looking to the Netherlands for innovative ideas based on centuries of experience with its eternal ‘frenemy’. (10 Ratings)
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