Michael Sorkin Studio and Terreform: Metrophysics
Friday, Oct 21, 20167 PM — Sunday, Dec 4, 201612 AMPDT
| SCI-Arc Gallery
Los Angeles, CA, USRelated
Architecture lives as both object and aggregation: buildings and cities. If the pursuit of an environment that is sustainable, equitable, and beautiful is common at every scale, the valence of these values varies by situation. Metrophysics foregrounds projects with meanings rooted in the urban, including buildings and sites designed with both practical and polemical intent. The work is from a team that operates as both a “traditional” architectural studio responding to clients, and as a research practice that formulates its own agenda of investigation and intervention. Discoveries are passed back and forth and what Terreform has learned over the years from New York City (Steady) State – an elaborate thought experiment to determine just how autonomous our city can become – informs “official” projects Sorkin Studio has undertaken in Wuhan or Xi’an. All, however, test the limits of physical design to abet broader human and planetary needs and desires.
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