Friday, October 16
7:00 p.m.
The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue
Natalie Jeremijenko, David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang will talk about the interconnected ecosystems of land and water, and the potential overlap between social networks of fish, people, and buildings.
Happy Hour Project Presentation: Amphibious Architecture
Amphibious Architecture
Team Members:
The Living Architecture Lab at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (Directors David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang) and Natalie Jeremijenko, Environmental Health Clinic at New York University
Amphibious Architecture submerges ubiquitous computing into the water—that 90% of the Earth’s inhabitable volume that envelops New York City but remains under-explored and under-engaged. Two [...]
Curatorial Statement
“When it is raining in Oxford Street the architecture is no more important than the rain, in fact the weather has probably more to do with the pulsation of the Living City at that given moment.” – Peter Cook
One could argue that this provocation by Peter Cook, published in 1963 in the catalogue for the Living City exhibition [...]