Stephen Cassell

F.H "Bud" Griffis, professor of Construction Engineering and Management in the Department of Civil Engineering at the NYU Polytechnic University and Stephen Cassell, principal of Architecture Research Office LLC, and one of the WNYC cityscape architect collaborators, discuss design and engineering ideas to help mitigate storm surge damage.

 

Hurricane Irene demonstrated the risks of flooding along NYC's waterfront. Stephen Cassell and Adam Yarinsky, principals at Architecture Research Office LLC, offered solutions for Lower Manhattan as part of a recent MOMA exhibition on global warming, now in book form: Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront.

The April series, done in collaboration with the WNYC Culture department's new project on the changing NYC architectural environment, continues. The New Yorker's architecture critic Paul Goldberger is joined by Stephen Cassell, of Architecture Research Office LLC, who also advises the city's green task force ...