Rising Currents

24.03.2010 - 09.08.2010

MoMA Architecture and Design Galleries 11 West Fifty-third Street New York City, USA

MoMA and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center joined forces to address one of the most urgent challenges facing the nations 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 Citys harbor and coastline. As in past economic recessions, construction has slowed dramatically in New York, and much of the citys 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 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 citys 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.

How to Get there:
By Subway
From the east side of Manhattan
6 train to 51st Street, transfer to the E or V train; one stop to 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue
From the west side of Manhattan
E or V train to 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue, or B, D, or F train to 47-50 Street Rockefeller Center
By Bus
From the east side of Manhattan
M1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 to 53rd Street
From the west side of Manhattan
M50 cross-town to 50th Street. Proceed to 53rd Street.
By Car
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From the Airport
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