San Diego Architectural Foundation

In a November 2009 New York Times update on the reconstruction of New Orleans' Katrina-devastated Lower Ninth Ward, Cultured Traveler writer Fred A. Bernstein describes the complications of good intentions. While Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation has done what appears to be a unanimously commendable job of rebuilding, the writer (and some of his interviewees) take issue with what is going up.



"Indeed, the houses seem better suited to an exhibition of avant-garde architecture than to a neighborhood struggling to recover. A number of designers I talked to, some of whom had visited the neighborhood, lamented the absence of familiar forms that would have comforted returning residents."

A potentially problematic predicament, and one sure to come up again soon as Haiti is able to begin to consider how it will begin its post-earthquake structural recovery.

In response to The NYT article, further observations from Gawker.com.
    
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