Architecture without ecology is like a tree without roots: it cannot stand. The New York Botanical Garden is bringing the particulars of New York City’s historical ecology to life. The goal is not to go back but rather to go forward cognisant of nature’s wisdom and intelligence.
Participants
ERIC SANDERSON, LUCINDA ROYTE, ANNIE FU, AND JESSE MOY
NEW YORK, USA
Eric Sanderson, Phoenix, USA, 1967. Lives and works in New York, USA.
Lucinda Royte, New York, USA, 1999. Lives and works in New York, USA.
Annie Fu, Commerce, MI, USA, 1999. Lives in Brooklyn, works in New York, USA.
Jesse Moy, New York, USA, 1988. Lives in Beacon, NY, works in New York, USA.
Technical Collaborators
Eric Mehl, Hypothetical, Inc. (visualisation); Kim Fisher, Wildlife Conservation Society (programming and database construction); Ian McCallum, Munsee-Delaware Nation (Indigenous placenames); Phillip Pond, atelier pond (website design); Sylvia Alexander (editing); Dustin Sampson, SparkGeo (technical advice); Genesis Abreu, New York Botanical Garden (public outreach)
Team
Christopher Spagnoli, Mario Giampieri, Christopher Giamarino, and Fiona McKibben, Wildlife Conservation Society (data analysis); Hannah Fowler, New York University (bibliographic support)
Thanks
Jennifer Bernstein, Markley Boyer, Gabriella Canal, Mauricio Diazgranados, Todd Forrest, Katherine Flynn, Joanna Groarke, Michael Kimmelman, Jill Kneerim, Eric Himmel, Abbott Miller, Neri Oxman, John G. Robinson, Michael Sand, William Solecki, John Waldman, Michaela Wright
Supporters
New York Botanical Garden (NYBG), Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, Hudson River Foundation, New York Community Trust, New York University (NYU) Environmental Studies Department, National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA), Abrams Books, Pentagram
