Michael Sorkin Studio

09/12/2021

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Michael Sorkin and Michael Sorkin Studio were awarded the Gold Prize for North America, by the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction http://www.sorkinstudio.com/house-as-gardenSorkin Studio is pleased to announce that its Founder and Director, Michael Sorkin and Michael Sorkin Studio were a...

19/11/2021

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20/10/2019

This last week on dDAB: https://archidose.blogspot.com/

16/10/2019

Gowntown: A 197-X Plan for Upper Manhattan Terreform UR (Urban Research) , 2016 Paperback | 8 x 11 inches | 180 pages | English | ISBN...

15/09/2019

Earlier this week Center for Architecture (AIANY) NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development (HPD)

Interesting talk and learning from finalists presentation on past/present/future in

Terreform Center for Advanced Urban Research cheering on Michael Sorkin Studio at last week’s Big Ideas Small Lots exhibition opening at the Center for Architecture. The exhibition was recently included in The Architect's Newspaper must-see list.

Learn more about Sorkin Studio’s proposal 🎥
https://www.terreform.info/news/2019/8/8/big-ideas-for-small-lots

More 📸 via https://twitter.com/NYCHousing/status/1171450383626981376?s=20

11/09/2019

....The research soon became a simple speculation on skyscraper form and the limits of its expressivity.
http://www.sorkinstudio.com/lotus-ground-zero
Credits: Michael Sorkin, Andrei Vovk

Excerpts from After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York, Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin, editors, Routledge, New York, 2002. BN: 0-415-93479-6 (hardback).

Introduction
Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin
THEIR ABSENCE IS INDELIBLE: the Twin 'Towers were landmarks, buildings you could not lose sight of no matter where you were. They told you which way to face when you wanted to walk downtown, were your first view of the city when driving in from New Jersey, and anchored the skyline when you were flying out of JFK. As you rode the D train over the East River into Manhattan after dark, they were fluorescent chessboards against the black night sky. Sometimes sinister, sometimes beautiful, sometimes just banal, they were icons of New York City -- the best-known buildings in the world, the Everest of our urban Himalayas.
https://cryptome.org/after-wtc.htm

06/09/2019

2019 서울도시건축비엔날레
집합도시 Collective City
서울도시건축비엔날레 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism

Participant
Michael Sorkin Studio

BIG PLANS
Made for China

The design of cities in their all-at-once has become anathema, deplored as “utopian” (a concept itself, sadly, in bad odor), masculinist, authoritarian, etc., etc.

We disagree and think this discourse is vital, not only imaginatively but on the ground: every city has a point of departure, a set of governing ideas that limn the terms — however constricting or loose — for its development and maturation.

In light of explosive growth — by mid-century 70% of the world’s population will be urban — and of accelerating environmental disaster, it is only rational that new cities be a major part of the solution.

The attraction of China....

Read on and see you at
http://www.seoulbiennale.org/2019/exhibition.view.html?seq=181&cate=cities

p.s. Our studio's Terreform Urban Research 📚📚📚📚📚 there as well as Proyecto Helicoide 's exhibition. See https://www.terreform.info/news/2019/9/6/proyecto-helicoide-at-seoul-biennale

05/09/2019

23/08/2019

THE BARACK OBAMA COMMUNITY LIBRARY
Date: 2013
Location: Chicago
Category: District Neighborhoods
Credits: Michael Sorkin, Makoto Okazaki, Ying Liu, Jie Gu, Trudy Giordano, Michael Parkinson
in forthcoming
http://bit.ly/TerreformShiftingGears

“Communities (have) to be created, fought for, tended like gardens.”
Barack Obama Dreams from My Father..
Although the presidential library is now as natural a part of our national trove of civic rituals and commemorations as the pledge of allegiance, it is, like the pledge, a fairly new one. The first presidential library was FDR’s in Hyde Park, New York. Based on his own sketches, it opened in 1941, one year before the pledge was adopted by Congress and not long after the construction of the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials in Washington, DC.....

Full PDF:
bit.ly/BarackObamaCommunityLibrary