““Water mingles with every kind of natural phenomenon; and more than one might imagine, it has also mingled with the particular destiny of mankind.””
The third category of [WA] proposes trans-boundary design strategies across entire river basins, and at multiple scales.
The work moves between Derek Hoeferlin's professional and teaching leadership initiatives and collaborations.
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project team: Derek Hoeferlin (lead), Jess Vanecek, Rob Birch
honors: First Prize, Designing Resilience International Open Competition, 2017
"Leo Hollandicus," by Claes Janzsoon Visscher of Amsterdam (1648)
image courtesy: https://centrici.hypotheses.org/775 (public domain, accessed July 26, 2018)
Dutch landscape architect Steven Slabbers first introduced me to this image, in a lecture he delivered at a "Dutch Dialogues" workshop in New Orleans in 2009, sponsored by Waggonner & Ball Architects and the Royal Netherlands Embassy, Washington D.C. Paraphrasing Stevens' eloquent words: although there are no lions in Holland, the lion is the symbol of Holland, and while in this depiction the lion faces defiantly towards Europe (and at the time, Spain), ultimately, the lion's true strength is its backbone -- which in reality are the dunes of Holland, and hence Holland's first line of defense from the surge of the sea.
