MoMA: Rising Currents

First, Happy Holidays! :)

One month ago, MoMA challenged architects to create creative solution responding to rising water levels and en-dangered eco system problems in NYC water front. Several architects, engineers, and landscape architects were invited and following teams has been selected to complete 8 weeks projects to exhibit and display at MoMA.

Zone 0

Adam Yarinsky, Architecture Research Office (ARO)

Zone1

David J. Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, Paul Lewis, LTL Architects

Zone2

Matthew Baird, Matthew Baird Architects

Zone3

Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang, nARCHITECTS

Zone4

Kate Orff, SCAPE Studio

We have open house on January 9th Saturday at MoMA:PS1! all day but mostly 2 – 6. The actual exhibition will be in March in the MoMA main Museum, but this will be time to meet the architects and see the “preview” of the overall project. So come by if you are around! I won’t be there because I have to go back to school early :( , but there will be Sectional models, topos, and some digital stuffs that Dimitry and I helped for Matthew Baird!

So definitely come by if you are around,

I attached the followineg article which has more info! :)

and following link has a good explanation of each zones and architects responds

http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2009/12/01/rising-currents-two-weeks-deep/

Best, Joy