Jurors Set for Arch Grounds Design Competition: Submit You Ideas to the Urban Workshop
Hey, I have no idea why the Urban Workshop wasn't chosen as a juror for the Arch grounds design competition either. We can be sure a vast urban design conspiracy is at play. So maybe we were a long shot, but I would have really liked to see a more open competition process, or possibly a more out-of-the-box parallel public design competition that would have facilitated more inclusion and allowed for creative expression by those with something to say but without a design firm and x credentials to back up their entry.
To that end, the Urban Workshop would be happy to post your ideas, images and thoughts. If you're so inclined, put together a Google map, scan a drawing, whatever you like and we'll put up a post for people to comment on. The more detail the better, but if you have a unique idea pass it along and let's see if we can get more of the public involved.
Oh yeah, read on to see those who were selected for the competition (it's an impressive list):
Robert Campbell, an architect and the architecture critic at The Boston Globe and contributing editor of The Architectural Record.
Gerald Early, a professor and director of Afro-American studies at Washington University.
Denis P. Galvin, a civil engineer and deputy director of the National Park Service from 1997 to 2002.
Alex Krieger, founding principal of Chan Krieger Sieniewicz, an architecture and design firm, and professor at the Harvard School of Design.
David C. Leland, an urban strategist and managing director of Leland Consulting Group in Portland, Ore.
Cara McCarty, curator of the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York.
Laurie D. Olin, partner and landscape architect of OLIN Studio in Philadelphia.
Carol Ross Barney, founder and principal of Ross Barney Architects in Chicago.
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What a truly frightening group of judges. Most are architects, which is a terrifying thought for a project which needs not ground breaking modern design but instead solid context sensitive urban planning. The only upside is the lack of clearly St. Louis connected individuals. Therefore, maybe the group will be more open to new ideas (e.g. removing the highway).
I see the following (allowing for double counting those with more than one title/profession):
4 architects
1 landscape architect
1 writer/architecture critic
1 professor of Afro-American studies
1 civil engineer
1 architecture professor
1 urban strategist
1 museum curator
It seems like a good variety to me.