GSD to award the Veronica
Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design to Adriaan Geuze and West 8 Landscape
Architects
Award Recognizes Excellence in Urban Design With International Scope
WHEN: Award Presentation & Lecture: Wednesday, December 4, 6:30
p.m.
Exhibition Borneo-Sporenburg, West 8 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture, Adriaan Geuze: November 25, 2002 - January 12, 2003
WHERE: GSD
Gund Hall (exhibition); Piper Auditorium (lecture)
48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
WHAT: The GSD will award the 2002 Veronica Rudge Green Prize to designer Adriaan Geuze and his firm West 8 Landscape Architects of Rotterdam, Netherlands, for their design of the Borneo-Sporenburg housing project in Amsterdam. GSD Dean Peter G. Rowe and jury chair Rodolfo Machado, Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design, will introduce Adriaan Geuze and present him with the Prize in a public program featuring a lecture by Geuze on the award-winning project.
The GSD will present an accompanying exhibition of the work of West 8 with plans, drawings, models and photographs charting the evolution of the Borneo-Sporenburg project.
West 8 was commissioned in 1996 to transform Borneo and Sporenburg, two expansive docks on Amsterdam’s eastern waterfront, into 2,500 low- and high-rise housing units. Challenged to introduce considerable new housing in a dense area and committed to creating unique dwellings within a unified whole, West 8 introduced a complex of three-storey ground-entry houses with patios, roof gardens, and spectacular views that draw upon and enhance the surrounding landscape. Completed in 2000, Borneo-Sporenburg features a high degree of architectural variation within three immense sculptural blocks -- introducing a functional yet striking landmark on the Amsterdam waterfront.
Adriaan Geuze is the director and head designer of West 8, a European leader in landscape and urban design. The firm’s past projects include the Schouwburgplein public square and Erasmian Garden in Rotterdam, and the redesign of the waterfront in Thessaloniki, Greece.
The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design is awarded biannually by the GSD to recognize excellence in urban design with an emphasis on projects that contribute to the public realm of a city and improve the quality of urban life. Recipients are chosen by a jury of experts in the fields of architecture and urban design, and are presented with a monetary award and certificate.
The exhibition and lecture are free and open to the public. For more information, the public can call (617) 495-9571; or visit the Harvard Design School Web site at: www.gsd.harvard.edu.
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contact:
Blythe Liebgott (212) 671-5161; bliebgott@resnicowschroeder.com or Laura
Bradley (212) 671-5169 Resnicow Schroeder Associates