wiggle Sorkin, Michael 1948- creator text nyu 1998 monographic eng

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192 p. ill. ;col. ; 26 cm. This monograph documents over a decade's worth of projects from this important New York-based firm. Although urban areas are most frequently the subject of the Studio's iconoclastic rejuvenation, an attention to nature and natural form is nonetheless ubiquitous. From the biomorphic Governor's Island proposal to the unabashed representationalism of the Beached Houses, from the luminescent tubers of the Miira installation to the neurological networks of the Neurasia project, the Studio combats the sprawl of automobile-centric urbanism with a decidedly organic vocabulary. In the able hands of the Michael Sorkin Studio, progressive strategies of urban intervention and biological reinjection - as Tokyo's Godzilla and the East New York projects testify - are given innovative architectural form. Beyond the strength and breadth of the projects themselves, the work is enhanced by this volume's dramatic graphic presentation. Produced by the Studio, the "exquisite corpse" layout literally intertwines the projects, illustrating both their kinship and their strong contextual affiliations. With over two hundred color images, this book serves as an appropriate forum for the Studio's production and its increasing use of sophisticated imaging technologies. Floating Islands -- Weed, AZ, Near Yuma, Arizona 1994 -- Bucharest 2020, competition 1996 -- Neurasia 1996 -- Spa Tokaj, Near Budapest, Hungary -- Brooklyn Waterfront, Brooklyn, New York 1993-94 -- East New York, Brooklyn, New York 1995-96 -- Governors Island, New York Harbor 1995-96 -- Hanseatic Skyscrapers, Hamburg, Germany 1989 -- Mass Movement, Times Square, New York 1987 -- Godzilla, Tokyo, Japan 1990-92 -- Parque Los Olivos, Mexico city, Mexico 1987 -- Turtle Portable Puppet Theater 1995 -- Beached Houses Whitehouse, Jamaica /Animal Houses 1989-91 -- Two Loft Buildings, New York city 1991-93 -- Rancho Mirage, near Palm Springs, California 1988 -- Berlin Spreebogen, competition 1991 -- Berlin Spree Insel, competition 1993 -- Souks of Beirut, competition 1994 -- Shrooms, East New York 1994 -- Shoehaus, Vienna, Austria 1995 -- Wagga Wagga Civic Center, New South Wales, Australia 1995 -- Mondo Condo, Miami, Florida 1994 -- Friedrichshof Commune, Burgenland, Austria 1997 -- Tracked Houses, New York city 1990 -- Chavez Ravine, Los Angeles, California 1997 -- Bay City Studies, San Francisco, California 1997... -- Model City Artist Space, New York city 1989 -- Moscow Metro: The Underground Paradise, World Financial Center, New York city 1993 -- World War II and the American Dream, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C. 1994 -- Subjects & Objects, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1995 -- Urbanagrams, Harvard University & Cornell University 1995 & 1996 -- Suburbs of Utopia, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York city 1994 -- Miira 1988 -- Floating Islands, Hamburg, Germany -- Michael Sorkin Studio. Architecture Research Architecture Technological innovations NA737.S593 A4 1998 720/.92 1885254253 9781885254252 98018254 pucpr 042910 20220721195938.0 eng