Charles Waldheim: The New Heliomorphism

In the Museum's continuing series of Skyscraper Seminars exploring subjects of theory and practice for design professionals, Charles Waldheim discusses “The New Heliomorphism.” Recent projects by a number of leading architects and urbanists have suggested new forms of urban order through solar orientation. 

At the 2017 Chicago Biennial, Waldheim and a team from the Harvard GSD Office for Urbanization, with Siena Sharff Design, presented the installation Heliomorphic Chicago, which re-imagined the Loop's buildings adjusted to a complex and contradictory economy of solar performance. 

In this talk, Waldheim will discuss a hypothetical Heliomorphic Manhattan, formulated on ideas of revising and and extending the ecological urbanism agenda by returning to values of solar performance.

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