Furry Ecologies
NYC, USA
The site of Gateway - the last natural condition within the City of New York - is too beautiful to imagine a urban park there with innocence and impunity. The vastness of the landscape, the beauty of the wetlands and the calm of the industrial ruins form a daunting presence, hostile to any notion of development. It would require a second innocence to believe, at this beginning of the 21th century, that a complete ecology - open water, dune, wetland, grass land or forest - can be planed and mastered. Too many architects' "visions" have bitten the dust to propose new additions to this chimerical battalion. Today, consensus builds around avoidance; our most profound adhesion is nonevent.