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Video: New Orleans' regeneration

This programme ties in with the CIRIA Levee publication (http://www.leveehandbook.net/). It will visit the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans and film the aftermath of the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina.

It focuses on the rebuilding project currently being undertaken by leading architects across the world. Particular focus will be on David Adjaye's and Kieran Timberlake's Morphosis project.

Key Learning

The effect of Katrina and the current state of affairs
Exploration of the extant levees to indicate the infrastructural challenges
Detailed assessment of the design(s) including technical drawings
The architect interviewed about his design intent
Discusses land value and depreciation in extremis
Sustainability in the American context
Cost benefits of environmental measures.

About the contributor(s)

Cesar Rodriguez, project coordinator, Make it Right Foundation. He is the project liaison with the city of New Orleans;

Thom Mayne, founder of the influential studio Morphosis, and co-founder of the Southern California Institute of Architecture. He is a Pritzker Prize-winning architect.