Metrophysics, an exhibition by Michael Sorkin Studio & Terreform

The Bernard and Anna Spitzer School of Architecture is pleased to announce, Metrophysics, an exhibition by Michael Sorkin Studio and Terreform opening March 12^th, 2018 in the Atrium Gallery.

March 12–May 5, 2018

Gallery hours: M-F 9a-5p

Opening Reception: Monday, March 12, 5-9p

Architecture 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 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 speculation meant to determine just how autonomous our city can become—informs “official” projects Sorkin Studio has undertaken in Wuhan, Xi’an, or Istanbul and vice versa. All, however, test the limits of physical design to serve and enlarge broader human and planetary needs and desires and to represent ideas about happiness.