December 14, 2020
Class of 2020 graduates of the MS in Architecture and Urban Design Program Antonia Medina Abell, Hugo Bovea, Sharvari Raje, and Tal Fuerst were recognized by the American Institute of Architects New York (AIANY) and the American Society of Landscape Architecture New York (ASLANY) with an Honor Award in Transportation and Infrastructure Design Excellence for their project Good(s) Shift: Revitalizing the Port of Newburgh. The annual award recognizes innovative design approaches to transportation and infrastructure.
The winning team describes Good(s) Shift as “a proposal for an industrial working waterfront in the city of Newburgh that will agglomerate two vital segments of the Hudson Valley’s agricultural operations: processing and distribution. This will become one of a series of hubs that integrates diverse and intermodal operations, modeling the transition towards a less carbon-intensive transportation infrastructure for the Hudson Valley … The goal is for this project to be the seed for systematic growth in the region, operating in a fast-moving and efficient way, money and carbon wise, providing processing infrastructure for the local farmers and a publicly accessible waterfront for the people of Newburgh.”
The project was designed during the fall 2019 semester as part of the urban design studio The Climate Crisis: Imagining a Green New Deal in the Hudson Valley led by Faculty Kaja Kühl, Anna Dietzsch, Jerome Haferd, Liz McEnaney, Justin Moore, Raafi Rivero, Shachi Pandey, David Smiley, and Dragana Zoric. The studio was sponsored by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at GSAPP as part of its Public Works for a Green New Deal curricular initiative. This program assembled a series of courses from across programs at GSAPP during the fall 2019 semester to consider the social, technical, and political contours of the ambitious—but still largely undefined—proposal known as the Green New Deal (GND).