Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront

Dal Wednesday 24 March 2010
al Monday 11 October 2010

Organized by Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design. The exhibition is made possible by The Rockefeller Foundation and is the first of five exhibitions in the series Issues in Contemporary Architecture, supported by Andre Singer.

MoMA and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center joined forces to address one of the most urgent challenges facing the nation’s largest city: sea-level rise resulting from global climate change. Though the national debate on infrastructure is currently focused on “shovel-ready” projects that will stimulate the economy, we now have an important opportunity to foster new research and fresh thinking about the use of New York City's harbor and coastline. As in past economic recessions, construction has slowed dramatically in New York, and much of the city’s remarkable pool of architectural talent is available to focus on innovation.

An architects-in-residence program at P.S.1 (November 16, 2009–January 8, 2010) brings together five interdisciplinary teams, including Architecture Research Office (ARO), to re-envision the coastlines of New York and New Jersey around New York Harbor and to imagine new ways to occupy the harbor itself with adaptive “soft” infrastructures that are sympathetic to the needs of a sound ecology. These creative solutions are intended to dramatically change our relationship to one of the city’s great open spaces.

This installation presents the proposals developed during the architects-in-residence program, including a wide array of models, drawings, and analytical materials.

March 24 - October 11, 2010

Architecture and Design Galleries, third floor

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