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 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.
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This is the first opportunity for the public to visit the Rising Currents architect-in-residence studios at P.S.1. As part of P.S.1’s Saturday Sessions, the five teams will open their studios to the public and be available to discuss their work. Two rounds of presentations will be given. The first round of presentations will begin at 2:15 p.m. and the second will begin at 4:30 p.m.
Organized by The Museum of Modern Art in cooperation with P.S.1, Rising Currents will include a residency for teams of architects and designers at P.S.1 this fall and an exhibition at MoMA next spring. The residency at P.S.1 is part of Free Space, a new project with artists and nonprofit arts institutions in which P.S.1 provides collaborative use of its gallery space for events, rehearsals, and other live presentations.
2:15
LTL Architects, 3rd Floor
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Scape Landscape Architecture, 2nd Floor
2:45
Michael Baird Architect, 1st Floor
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nARCHITECTS, Education Room, Lower Level
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ARO, Rising Currents Lounge, Lower Level
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4:30
LTL Architects, 3rd Floor
4:45
Scape Landscape Architecture, 2nd Floor
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Michael Baird Architect, 1st Floor
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nARCHITECTS, Education Room, Lower Level
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ARO, Rising Currents Lounge, Lower Level
The Ammann Singstad Lecture on Infrastructure honors the memory of the two great civil engineers who shaped the bridges and tunnels of New York in the middle of the twentieth century—Othmar Ammann (1879–1965) and Ole Singstad (1882–1969)—by inviting the most distinguished civil engineers in the world to speak about their own work and its greater impact. The lectures highlight the aesthetic and social dimensions of large civil and landscape engineering works and their repercussions on the physical, social, and political environment. Norwegian civil engineer Tor Ole Olsen will speak on infrastructure in the marine environment with an emphasis on his work with concrete structures in oil and gas, bridges, and renewable energy sources. This program is sponsored by The Royal Norwegian Consulate General and presented as part of the public programming associated with the upcoming MoMA exhibition Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront. This lecture has been scheduled in conjunction with the Detour exhibition at Parsons, The New School for Design.
In conjunction with the exhibition Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront, Adriaan Geuze, founder of West 8 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture, presents a lecture titled “The Promise of an Island: The Plan for Governors Island’s Park and Public Space.”
The Center for Architecture and The Museum of Modern Art invite you to on a guided boat tour of the five sites included in MoMA’s exhibition Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront. Representatives from the five architects-in-residence teams will give overviews of each site, explaining how the solutions on view in the exhibition present new ways to occupy the harbor with adaptive “soft” infrastructures.
The MoMA exhibition Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront addresses some of the most urgent challenges of sea-level rise resulting from global climate change in New York City. It features five inter-disciplinary teams that have proposed solutions to rising currents at five different sites along the New York and New Jersey coastlines. On a cruise aboard the New York Water Taxi around these sites, poets Matthea Harvey, Lisa Jarnot, and others read works about water, nature, and ecology, as well as newly commissioned poems that reimagine what the city might be like underwater, way above water, and with man-made islands and habitable piers. Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design and organizer of the exhibition, introduces the program.
The MoMA exhibition Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront addresses some of the most urgent challenges of sea-level rise in New York City resulting from global climate change. It features five inter-disciplinary teams that have proposed solutions to rising currents at five different sites along the New York and New Jersey coastlines. On a cruise aboard the New York Water Taxi around these sites, representatives from the architects-in-residence teams and Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design and organizer of the exhibition, will give overviews of each site, explaining how the solutions on view in the exhibition present new ways to occupy the harbor with adaptive “soft” infrastructures. Barry Bergdoll also introduces the program.
Food and drink are available for purchase aboard the Water Taxi.
What is the afterlife of the exhibition Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront? City planners, architects, and an engineer join us to discuss their reactions to the exhibition, possible next steps, and wider implications at the metropolitan, national, and the global levels. The discussion is moderated by Barry Bergdoll, curator of the exhibition, and includes panelists Amanda Burden, Chair of the New York City Planning Commission and Director of the Department of City Planning; Guy Nordenson, Professor of Structural Engineering and Architecture at Princeton University, a Faculty Associate of the Princeton University Center for Human Values, and author of the study On the Water; Anuradha Mathur, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, and a principle at Mathur/da Cunha; and Dilip da Cunha, visiting faculty at Parsons School of Design, New York, and a principle at Mathur/da Cunha.
Posted by Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design
Hudson River, 2006. Courtesy Architecture Research Office
As we get ready to begin the installation of the MoMA exhibition next week, I wanted to take a step back and offer a visual reflection on a central figure in this exhibition. Our thanks to Architecture Research Office for poetically capturing the essence of Rising Currents. Click on the image to view the video clip.
Tags: environmental design
Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront
By Barry Bergdoll
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Comments
Good day.Beautiful images and intereting blog.I have been introduced to MOma by a media professional aftter we had given him a proposal on how we could best manage audio material that the Botswana National Museum has been collecting since 1984.The Museum hosts a radio program that deals with Botswana heritage but has no systematic archiving.In anycase he refefered to Moma media management solutions and i Thought its a wonderful system that the Museum here could venture into.Browsing through, your museum is virtually all online.Is it possible to form a collaboration or sort of bench marking exercise? All media files are in disarray and we think your solution is the best.We also have a blog at motswediwaditso.blogspot.com where we wanted to postcast topics aired but lack expertise.
Sincerely
Curator/Ethnology
Botswana National Museum
Posted by Dithunya lekoa
This project and related exhibition deal with an important and timely topic, which has been studied by several firms. It would be great to see a larger more inclusive exhibition that shows a spectrum of ideas, such as:
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/city-and-its-flooded-double_13.html
Posted by Albert
very gooooooood
Posted by gaspar
how relaxinggggggggg
Posted by jaquemata
why not post it on the Facebook & create a worldwide awarness
Posted by Adel El Ashmawy
This was an incredible look at how we as humans will deal with the question of climate change. I’m glad we have forward thinking architects amongst us as it might be impossible to curb the damage that is currently being done to our environment. Without groups of people as displayed in this exhibit we would have no way of adapting to rising water levels. Bravo, and a pat on the back for everybody!
Posted by Renni Nakamura
I got the Moma link from an article in a Union paper that was written about rising water levels. It is good to see that more people are trying to inform the public about conditions that are developing worldwide and what is being done to slow or reverse these conditions since the government informs us but seems to restrict how much and what is said to the general public.
Posted by Rita
awesome exhibit.
Posted by Jack Correll
c magnifike
Posted by pop
As an urban fisherman I feel we need to start by protecting what we have now. The true N.Y. shoreline, it’s extent and potential has not been understood by New Yorkers since Henry Hudson sailed in. Wonderful plans, would a capitalist system allow it?
Posted by BobWeiss
When i saw the water it made me feel relaxed and i watched it over and over again and i almost fell asleep!!!!!! -_-
Posted by lucky
i want to have business with you guys..;)
Posted by sobeida felix morel
I am researching the future of urban morphology and fabric for a climatologist and I found this all very interesting.
kudos
Posted by Robert Conrad Anderson
I am visiting the MoMA with my mom who is a pro.artist and who has her work in lots of exhebitions and has recently put her work in a galerie in Bratislava.My mom and I agree that this is the best museum ever!!!
Posted by agjm
C’est vraiment magnifique le MOMA nous permet d’explorer un monde d’art et de magie photographique du 20eme siecle et la salle ou est exposer des dessin d’enfants de 8 ans, MAGNIFIQUE
Posted by PHILIPPE
very nice! like it!!!
Posted by kiki
So much fun to be underwater! Like a swimmer in course… Genius!
Posted by Lucy
very very good!!
Posted by hannah
A new city in a city that reinvente itself each moment. It seem to be something organic that is growing to. As I’ve seen in other comment I’d like to work with you too.
Ansiosa de ver los resultados.
Posted by marola rubio
Oyster tecture is brilliant…I would love to see more exhibits like this in the future!
Posted by Amanda Klingler
Es ist wirklich sehr erstaunlich wie die Kuenstler alles in so kurzer und langer Zeit gemalt bekommen haben.
Liebe gruesseausdeutschland
Posted by Jenny
beatiful!! (:
Posted by filippo
LTL and ARO are the bomb! awesome exhibit!
Posted by dude
Beautiful city, with beautiful art- everywhere! Absolutely brilliant and innovative!
Posted by Marie
ot os preaty intresting were i can find more of this project
Posted by alex diaz
Solo puedo decir que esto es asombroso, realmente asombroso!!
Posted by Manuel
i really liked the exhibition, New York is awesome, i’ve never met anyone who didn’t like it. The whole museum is awesome,but such a pity, i don’t like Picasso, even through i am spanish
Posted by paula
i love NY!follow me to boston!
Posted by bouilly fanny
it was a good exhibition i think people will like it!
Posted by KATIE
Very nice exhibition.
Posted by Zolf
It was a very nice exhibition, I enjoyed it thoroughly and it had very good….. architecture.
Posted by Anon
this museum is very nice, or orrible. i don’t know becouse im an artist!
Posted by niko
New York, I love you.
Posted by Ben
Interesting presentation that shows the immense power of nature and its effect on our city!
Posted by Johan
Amazing , very nice exhibitiom!
Posted by Gianluca & Melania
i love MOMA
Posted by camille
a really good presentation and a great construction of all the artists works!!!
Posted by Jessica
moma rocks
Posted by stefan
isto e uma seca…nunca mais!
Posted by Pablo
I love new york
Posted by patrick
cool art muesaum the 9 stands tht im nine my sissy meg is 12 shes really good at art i thick when shes older her art will be famous in this muesamum good luck to meggie ps i luv NYC
Posted by caroline 9
Its a really nice project, but why not attack the real problem? Global warming can be stopped.
Posted by Federico
I love MOMA. New york is so magic kiss
Posted by lisa
I love New York but France is better !
Moma is fun ..
Posted by Emilie
Hermoso interesante!!………………….Espectacular NEW YORK!
Posted by johana perdomo
i love to go fishing in hudson river !!!!
Posted by Pacchia
MoMa rocks! I love New York but Singapore is better. Come to Singapore!
Posted by Desmond
the moma is fantastic!!!!!!!
Posted by peppelangella
Que grande esta exposicion! impresionante felicitaciones sigan asi!
Posted by Hugo
cool
Posted by carly
Truly interesting! Amazing way of presenting such a huge project! You take care of the environment, improve the sea front and let everyone enjoy amazing modern design. It would be great if it could come true!
Thanks
Posted by Nati and Javo
beautifful
Posted by anonimuse
tHiS Is AmAzInG
Posted by erik
the moma is a fantastic place where there are a lot f interesting thing….I love andy warhol and his pictures!!!
Posted by flavia chechi
I visited the moma for the 3th time. It’a great, this museum and next time when I visit New York again, I shall go to the moma again.
Jos Verspaget
Netherlands
Posted by Jos Verspaget
lol!
Posted by flosch
Bellissimo il Moma,stupenda la parte relativa alle pitture..Bellissima la “Notte stellata” di Van Gogh *.*
Posted by Marco
Il Moma e stato un museo meraviglioso con tantissimi quadri interessanti! Xk in italia non c’e niente e qua c’e tutto???
Posted by Federico