In 2005, Michael Sorkin Studio underwent a mitosis with the founding of Terreform.
Given a long history of polemical and activist work in a variety of registers, including design, advocacy, and writing - there’d been a long simmering desire to find a form of practice that was more transparent with the non-commercial – even utopian – projects and ambitions that engaged us. Not wanting to give up the prospect of “ordinary” building, however, we formalized the conceptual split into a “straight” architectural practice and an organization doing research, unsolicited interventions, publishing, and propositions.
The studio works in a single spirit with a focus on questions of city, on its morphology, systems of equity, and metabolic behavior. Each side serves as the lab for the other but we’re all on the same page: the iron fiscal curtain between the two entities is a membrane that’s completely porous to ideas.
The work is from a team that operates as both a “traditional” architectural studio responding to clients, and as a research practice that formulates its own agenda of investigation and intervention.
Discoveries are passed back and forth and what Terreform has learned over the years from New York City (Steady) State – an elaborate speculation meant to determine just how autonomous our city can become – informs “official” projects Sorkin Studio has undertaken in Wuhan, Xi’an, or Istanbul and vice versa. All, however, test the limits of physical design to serve and enlarge broader human and planetary needs and desires and to represent ideas about happiness.
https://www.archpaper.com/2016/11/metrophysics-sci-arc-sorkin-terreform/
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- Employees
- 2
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- Address
- 180 Varick Street,
- Industry
- Research Services
- NAICS
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Scientific Research and Development ServicesResearch and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life SciencesResearch and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Website
- terreform.info
- Keywords
- Research, Social Research, Urban Research, Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Scholarship, Design, Urban Planning, Speculative Design, Data Visualization, Data Analysis, Editorial, Publishing, Resilency, Sustainability, Green Architecture, Green Design.
- HQ
- New York, New York
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Terreformur's categories are Research Services
Terreformur's founding year is 2005
