Group Tour
Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront
Barry Bergdoll
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
9:30 a.m.
The Museum of Modern Art
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Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, will lead a tour of Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront, a joint project between MoMA and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, fostering new research and fresh thinking about the use of New York City’s harbor and coastline against the threat of rising sea levels from global climate change.

As in past economic recessions, construction has slowed dramatically in New York, and much of the city’s 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) brought 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.

The five teams were led by Architecture Research Office (ARO) and dlandstudio; Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis (LTL Architects); Matthew Baird Architects; nARCHITECTS; and SCAPE.

This exhibition is organized by Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design. 

The exhibition is made possible by The Rockefeller Foundation. It is the first of five exhibitions in the series Issues in Contemporary Architecture, supported by Andre Singer.

Reservations are required. Due to the limited number of tickets and to facilitate fair access across our membership, reservations are limited to members only. Upper level members, including League Circle firms, are limited to two reservations. Reservations will be given on a first-come, first-served basis, beginning at 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, May 4th. Reservations received before 10:00 a.m. on May 4th will not be honored. Please email anderson@archleague.org. Further program information will be given upon confirmation.

This program was made possible in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

©2010 Museum of Modern Art, NY. Imaging Services. Photograph by Thomas Griesel.