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Revisiting Cite 71: The Hurricane Issue

Cite 71 was sandwiched in-between several hurricanes. Published in the summer of 2007 — after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and before Hurricane Ike — the issue managed to digest the still-raw lessons learned from the devastation in New Orleans and offered a prescient analysis before the arrival of Ike. The issue asked experts what the [...]

07.30.09 Environment

A View of Ike

The above video was made by Sara Fernandez. She wrote, “Setting my camera on interval record looking out of my bedroom window (my home is in Montrose, west of downtown Houston) was always on my list of things to do. Hurricane Ike was the motivator to get it done. I wanted to capture the movement [...]

01.13.09 Art & Culture

Paul Villinski’s Emergency Response Studio

Emergency Response Artist Studio [Photo courtesy of Jonathan Ferrara Gallery] The Rice Gallery features site-specific, commissioned installations and every one that I have visited there has been extraordinary. Last Fall, an installation by Aurora Robson used cut plastic bottles and rivets to create winding translucent tunnels and domes. When I took my two-year-old daughter to [...]

01.08.09 Art & Culture
Environment

Disappeared: Galveston, Ike, and Affordable Housing

Man throwing debris into pile in Galveston. [Photo by Eric Hester] What happens when you take a failing affordable housing policy and add a direct hit by Hurricane Ike. I talked to Chula Sanchez, a LEED-certified architect and member of the Galveston Planning Commission, about just that. “The planning commission seems to be more of [...]

12.17.08 Architecture
Preservation