OPENING AT JUNE 8 IN NEW YORK

IMAGINE THE FUTURE OF THE FUTURE!

The Center for Architecture and ARCAM are thrilled to announce the exhibition programs for Glimpses of New York and Amsterdam in 2040. The exhibition challenges ten architecture, landscape architecture and design firms to imagine an urban future that includes new waterside cityscapes, neighborhoods, and transit systems.

The exhibition will open in New York at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, on June 8, and remain on view until September 10. The show will also be installed in Amsterdam, on view at the Amsterdam Centre for Architecture (ARCAM) June 17 until August 13.
Exhibiting New York and Amsterdam architects and landscape architects will present their work, offering glimpses into the future of New York and Amsterdam by themes of five basic human activities: BREATHING, EATING, MAKING, MOVING and DWELLING. These glimpses are starting points to project the future of the future – visions that will provoke dialogue regarding the potential of planning strategies.

During the opening week in New York several debates will be organized at the Center for Architecture, starting with lectures by Ton Venhoeven on Sustainable Mobility and Bjarne Mastenbroek(SeARCH), and debates on the Future of Practice and Climate Change. During a Symposium on the Glimpses at Saturday June 11th respondents from the fields of government, academic and professional practice will reflect on the projected glimpses into 2040. A wrap-up panel among the theme respondents will address how the glimpses of the future impact the discussion of sustainable cities today, as well as lessons learned across the various approaches.

See for the program:
ARCAM, Amsterdam Centre for Architecture
Center for Architecture New York

EXHIBITION AND PARTICIPANTS GLIMPSES

This blog informs on 'Glimpses', a manifestation in the summer of 2011, set up by ARCAM, Amsterdam Centre for Architecture, and the Center for Architecture New York. The project (exhibitions and debates) explores the long-term future of both cities, as for each city the next level of transformation focuses on creating a vibrant and sustainable city.

The exhibition is divided into five “glimpses,” based on necessities of 21st century urban life. The roles of recreation (a section dubbed “Breathing”), food production (“Eating”), economic production (“Making”), transportation (“Moving”), and living spaces (“Dwelling”) are explored in the context of both cities. Within New York, firms focus their attention on recreation on the Hudson River (W Architecture), expanding the food network of Bedford Stuyvesant in Brooklyn (workAC), commerce and development at the Bush Terminal in Brooklyn (Solid Objectives - Idenburg Liu (SO-IL)), transportation in Long Island City (dlandstudio) and the residential development of Newark, NJ (Interboro Partners). In Amsterdam, designers focus on the development of the northern and southern IJ-waterfronts (Delva Landscape Architects / Dingeman Deijs Architect), examples of local food production in Amsterdam (van Bergen Kolpa), Schiphol as a central hub for learning and knowledge (Barcode Architects), South Axis Business District as a mobility hub (Fabrications), and the Andreas ensemble as a high density housing estate within the city (Space & Matter).

Curatorial team: Marlies Buurman, ARCAM; Rosamond Fletcher, Center for Architecture; Maarten Kloos, ARCAM; Luc Vrolijks, Urban Progress

The exhibition will be on show at the Center for Architecture New York from June 8th till September 10th.See: http://cfa.aiany.org/index.php?section=upcoming&expid=140
ARCAM, the Amsterdam Centre for Architecture will exhibit Glimpses from June 17th-August 13th.
See for all related programs: http://www.arcam.nl/exposities/programma_nl.html

ABOUT GLIMPSES

This blog informs on 'Glimpses', a manifestation in the summer of 2011, set up by ARCAM, Amsterdam Centre for Architecture, and the Center for Architecture New York. The project (exhibitions and debates) explores the long-term future of both cities, as for each city the next level of transformation focuses on creating a vibrant and sustainable city.