Opening Reception:
6 - 9 Friday, March 05, 2010
Gallery Hours: 9 - 5 M to F or by appointment
Exhibit on view through: Now through Friday, June 5, 2010

 

 

 

Adapting Suburbs in the Twenty First Century showcases innovative design solutions for re-development, re-greening, & re-inhabiting our suburban landscapes toward a more sustainable future.

While there has been considerable attention by practitioners and academics to development in urban cores and new neighborhoods on the periphery of cities, there has been little attention to the redesign and redevelopment of existing suburbs. Authors Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson's acclaimed new book Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (seen just to the left on this webpage) offer comprehensive solutions for architects, planners, urban designers, and developers that illustrates how existing suburbs can be redesigned and redeveloped. The authors, both architects and noted experts on the subject, show how development in existing suburbs can absorb new growth and evolve in relation to changed demographic, technological, and economic conditions. Adapting Suburbs in the Twenty First Century showcases design solutions from 9 nationally and internationally recognized architecture and development firms with projects that have already been built, are in the advanced stages of planning and/or offer visioning solutions to existing troubled suburban landscapes.

Click here to download Introductory Essay by Ellen Dunham-Jones & June Williamson, Authors of Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (John Wiley & Sons, 2009).

Click here to download press release.

Click here to view images of the exhibition.

Click here to listen to an audio recording of Ellen Dunham-Jones' Reshaping Rochester lecture (with accompanying powerpoint).

Click here to read "Exhibit Looks at Suburbs' Future" by Sean Dobins of the Democrat & Chronicle.

Click here to read "Penfield Blog" (a Rochester suburb) entry "Is Living in Suburbia Still the Perfect Lifestyle?" by Lou Singer for the Democrat & Chronicle. And here for the followup entry "Revitalizing Penfield and Other Suburbs".

Click here to read the Democrat & Chronicle article.

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CREATIVE TEAM:

Curated By
Daniel Cosentino, MFA

Assistant Curator
Elaina R Stover

Graphic Design
Angela DiGiulio
Daniel Cosentino

With Additional Support From:
Joni Monroe, AIA, CNU
Roger Brown, AIA, CNU
Ellen Dunham-Jones, AIA
June Williamson, RA, LEED AP

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Projects Being Exhibited

Cooper Carry Inc. presents Mizner Park in Boca Raton, Fl and a local project to be shown in Rochester only on the Erie Canal Master Plan.

Tryba Architects present Englewood Town Center in Englewood, CO.

Parker Rodriguez Inc. presents University Town Center in Prince George's County, MD.

Freedman, Tung and Sasaki presents Palm Canyon Drive Corridor in Cathedral City, CA.

Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ) presents Legacy Town Center in Dallas, TX.

Galina Tahchieva of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ) presents the Urban Sprawl Repair Kit slated for publication soon.

Dover, Kohl & Partners presents Downtown Kendall in Miami-Dade, FL.

Torti Gallas & Partners, Inc. present Residential Typology Diagrams that map out useful housing types and lot configurations, organized by transect zone.

Georgia Institute of Technology Architectural team and Ellen Dunham-Jones with the LWARPS (sprawl spelled backwards) envisioning Atlanta, GA in 100 years.

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