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Architecture prize goes to woman who reclaims toxic dumps : NPR
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Next, we have the story of a landscape architect who specializes in unattractive landscapes. She’s received a important new prize for her function, and that contains her operate with harmful waste dumps. NPR’s Neda Ulaby has extra. NEDA ULABY, BYLINE: Julie Bargmann is drawn to unloved areas, polluted and gnarly. JULIE BARGMANN: The far more gnarly, the greater. ULABY: Why? BARGMANN: I am from New Jersey. ULABY: Bargmann is a professor at the College of Virginia who founded a style and design firm termed D.I.R.T. – Dump It Appropriate There. She’s generally preferred slag heaps, smelly quarries. BARGMANN: I experienced a raw, type of instinctual attraction to…


