Water Talks podcast: Big Five-interview Matthijs Bouw

Matthijs Bouw is a Dutch architect and urban designer who has lived in New York now for eight years. With his studio One Architecture and Urbanism he is working on ‘The Big U’, ten miles of infrastructure around the tip of Manhattan. His designs not only protect the island from storms, but also provide the local communities with valuable public space. Matthijs is also a professor of climate resilience at Penn University and the first Rockefeller Urban Resilience Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation.

This is the Big Five, the companion series to the podcast Water Talks, with five one-on-one interviews with some of the extraordinary speakers from the main episodes. You can hear Matthijs in episode 2 of Water Talks, ‘Too Much’. I spoke with him on the occasion of the New York Water Week and the UN Water conference in 2023.

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