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 phase of the [...]

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) to [...]

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 the planet’s population [...]

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 pushing [...]

…and disrupts its grid¹
Solomon Benjamin
‘Developmentalism’ is now a morbid zeal, mobilized to survey, to GIS, to digitize, to research, and colonize ‘Third World Cities.’ And in this zeal, lies the panoptic desire to turn the steel frame of the Nation State into The Grid and the Rule of Law, the Master Plan that poses the [...]