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April 19 - May 24, 2001
Adriaan Geuze and his firm, West 8 Urban Design and Landscape Architecture,
are awarded the Seventh Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design
for the Borneo Sporenburg development project. The story of the making
of the Borneo Sporenburg project is deep and complex, as well as the
results. The project is far reaching from a purely architectural point
of view, in considering the urban role of building details, or even
from a sociological or financial perspective, in how it combined the
pragmatism of capitalism and socialism in its real estate development.
Both contemporary, and Dutch in urban character, the project constantly
integrates seemingly contradictory qualities, such as abstraction
with representation of culture, typological invention with production
of realness, urbanity with the use of suburban typologies.
This exhibition was co-curated by Menno Van De Koppel and Kim Shkapich
The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design was established in 1986 on the occasion of the celebration of Harvard's 350th and the Graduate School of Design's 50th anniversaries, and to mark the visit of his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, to Harvard and the GSD. The award is made periodically by the GSD for an urban design project larger in scope than a single building, constructed anywhere in the world during the pervious ten years. Awad-winning projects are selected because they make a positive and substantial contribution to the public realm of a city, improve the quality of urban life, and demonstrate a humane direction for the design of urban environments.