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URL:https://live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io/events/opening-reception-for
 -metrophysics-exhibit/
SUMMARY:Opening Reception for Metrophysics Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Opening reception for Metrophysics exhibit with Michael Sorkin
 \, distinguished professor and director of the Graduate Urban Design Prog
 ram.\n\nWork on The City\nBy Michael Sorkin Studio and Terreform\n\nArchi
 tecture lives as both object and aggregation: buildings and cities. If the
  pursuit of an environment that is sustainable\, equitable\, beautiful\, a
 nd rich with difference is common at every scale\, the valence of these va
 lues varies by situation. Metrophysics foregrounds projects rooted in the 
 urban\, including buildings and sites designed with both practical and pol
 emical intent. The work is from a team that operates as a “traditional
 ” architectural studio responding to clients and as a research practice 
 that formulates its own agenda of investigation and intervention.\n\nIn 20
 05\, Michael Sorkin Studio underwent a mitosis with the founding of Terref
 orm. Given a long history of activist work in a variety of registers—inc
 luding design\, advocacy\, and writing—there’d been a long simmering d
 esire to find a form of practice that was more transparent with the non-co
 mmercial—even utopian—projects and ambitions that engaged us. Not want
 ing to give up the prospect of “ordinary” building\, however\, we form
 alized the conceptual split into a “straight” architectural practice a
 nd an organization doing research\, unsolicited interventions\, publishing
 \, and propositions. The studio works in a single spirit with a focus on q
 uestions of city\, on its morphology\, systems of equity\, and metabolic b
 ehavior. What Terreform has learned over the years from New York City (Ste
 ady) State—an elaborate speculation meant to determine just how autonomo
 us our city can become—informs “official” projects Sorkin Studio has
  undertaken in Wuhan\, Xi’an\, or Istanbul and vice versa. Each side ser
 ves as the lab for the other but we’re all on the same page: the iron fi
 scal curtain between the two entities is a membrane that’s completely po
 rous to ideas.\n\nExhibit runs until May 4.\n\n&nbsp\;
CATEGORIES:Events,Exhibits,Special Events
LOCATION:Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture\, 141 Convent Aven
 ue\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
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