What: Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront Where: Museum of Modern Art, MoMa, New York When: March 24 – August 9 2010 Who: P.S.1 and MoMa. Barry Bergdoll chief curator of architecture and design MoMa On March 24 the Rising Currents exhibition will open at the MoMa of New York, it is the last [...]

Metropolis by Rob Carter – Last 3 minutes from Rob Carter on Vimeo. Above is the last 3 minutes of Metropolis a stop-motion animation movie by Rob Carter made from images printed on paper. In the time-lapse video Carter physically manipulates aerial still images of the city of Charlotte, North Carolina (both real and fictional) [...]

Image from sci-fi thriller DISTRICT 9 via Yukon Science fiction Writer What: A Workshop of Experimental Architecture on the urban border-conditions Where: Johannesburg (SA) When: Aug 23 – Sept 10 , 2010 Who: RIEA.ch Research Institute for Experimental Architecture In a rapidly growing urban world, slums and informal settlements provide shelter for a sixth of [...]

Cluster is pleased to announce a new regular column on its blog edited by RIEA-ch – the Research Institute of Experimental Architecture. The term “Experimental Architecture’ was first used by Peter Cook of the avant-garde architectural group Archigram in 1970 – long before the advent of interactive technologies. Archigram, pioneers in experimentalism, were intent on [...]