Prototype for a post-Katrina public school in New Orleans. The project explores the levees and how a school might interface with the vital waterways to rebuild and reconnect New Orleans.

1. advanced studios
expandable prototypes: post-katrina public schools new orleans, la critic: scott marble

2. “The question is, what do we mean by recovery?”
“Is it getting the hotel occupancy numbers back up in the French Quarter? Or is it fixing low-income schools or working on the worst housing problems?”
Lawrence Vale, head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT.