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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20180312
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SUMMARY:Metrophysics
DESCRIPTION:Work on The City\nBy Michael Sorkin Studio and Terreform\n\nAr
 chitecture lives as both object and aggregation: buildings and cities. If 
 the pursuit of an environment that is sustainable\, equitable\, beautiful\
 , and rich with difference is common at every scale\, the valence of these
  values varies by situation. Metrophysics foregrounds projects rooted in t
 he urban\, including buildings and sites designed with both practical and 
 polemical intent. The work is from a team that operates as a “traditiona
 l” architectural studio responding to clients and as a research practice
  that formulates its own agenda of investigation and intervention.\n\nIn 2
 005\, Michael Sorkin Studio underwent a mitosis with the founding of Terre
 form. Given a long history of activist work in a variety of registers—in
 cluding design\, advocacy\, and writing—there’d been a long simmering 
 desire to find a form of practice that was more transparent with the non-c
 ommercial—even utopian—projects and ambitions that engaged us. Not wan
 ting to give up the prospect of “ordinary” building\, however\, we for
 malized the conceptual split into a “straight” architectural practice 
 and an organization doing research\, unsolicited interventions\, publishin
 g\, and propositions. The studio works in a single spirit with a focus on 
 questions of city\, on its morphology\, systems of equity\, and metabolic 
 behavior. What Terreform has learned over the years from New York City (St
 eady) State—an elaborate speculation meant to determine just how autonom
 ous our city can become—informs “official” projects Sorkin Studio ha
 s undertaken in Wuhan\, Xi’an\, or Istanbul and vice versa. Each side se
 rves as the lab for the other but we’re all on the same page: the iron f
 iscal curtain between the two entities is a membrane that’s completely p
 orous to ideas.\n\nMichael Sorkin is a distinguished professor and directo
 r of the Graduate Urban Design Program.
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
LOCATION:Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture\, 141 Convent Aven
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