Rising Currents Open Studios

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

2:30
Scape Landscape Architecture, 2nd Floor

2:45
Michael Baird Architect, 1st Floor

3:00
nARCHITECTS, Education Room, Lower Level

3:15
ARO, Rising Currents Lounge, Lower Level

BREAK

4:30
LTL Architects, 3rd Floor

4:45
Scape Landscape Architecture, 2nd Floor

5:00
Michael Baird Architect, 1st Floor

5:15
nARCHITECTS, Education Room, Lower Level

5:30
ARO, Rising Currents Lounge, Lower Level

Marine Structures: Innovative Design from Norway
The Ammann Singstad Lecture Series on Infrastructure

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.

Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront

The Promise of an Island: The Plan for Governors Island’s Park and Public Space

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.”

Rising Currents Boat Tour

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.

Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront

Modern Poets: Rising Currents

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.

Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront

Rising Currents Boat Tour

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.

Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront

Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront

Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront

Rising Currents: A Panel Discussion on Next Steps

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.

Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront