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A schematic design for Xi'an Forest Park. Michael Sorkin Studio teamed up with Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology and Beijing Institute of Architectural Design for this project.
Michael Sorkin Studio is working with New York City to develop a new series of more sustainable and beautiful subway vent benches.
We closed September with a packed event at the Center For Architecture for the launch of Spaces of Disappearance: The Architecture of Extraordinary Rendition. The evening included a book presentation by author Jordan H. Carver and a discussion between Carver, Amrit Singh (Open Society Foundations) and Laura Pitter (Human Rights Watch), moderated by Reinhold Martin (Columbia GSAPP).

Thank you to all who joined us, it was a lively discussion on the intersection of architecture and human rights. If you missed it, you can watch the event here.
 
"Those who care about freedom and human rights in the built environment will value this rejection of the redactions, denials, and legalisms of the so-called War on Terror." — Raphael Sperry, ADPSR
Julio Salcedo (Scalar Architecture, Principal) presented our joint shadow study and analysis to the Department of City Planning Commission hearing last month. This capped our 3-month engagement with Movement to Protect the People, a community activist group in Crown Heights. The study was featured in various news outlets including PBS.
AUTHOR EVENTS

Vanessa Keith, author of 2100: A Dystopian Utopia/The City After Climate Change

OCT. 12 A/D/O, NY, NY
OCT. 19 Omega Center for Sustainable Living, Rhinebeck, NY
Kongjian Yu, author of Letters to the Leaders of China: Kongjian Yu and the Future of the Chinese City

OCT. 17-18 Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, PA
OCT. 19-20 ASLA 2018 (Book-signing), Philadelphia, PA
OCT. 24 ASU Design School, Tempe, AZ
OCT 29 Columbia University, NY, NY

Deen Sharp, co-editor of Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings

OCT. 22 MIT, Cambridge, MA
PRESS

Book Review "Spaces of Disappearance: The Architecture of Extraordinary Rendition", Blueprint Magazine. 

El Helicoide y la nostalgia del ascenso, Traficovisual.com.

Leandro Benmergui reseña "Downward Spiral: El Helicoide’s Descent from Mall to Prison", Artishockrevista.com.

In-Depth Interview: NYU’s Jordan H. Carver Talks About His Remarkable New Book About Rendition, Detention and Torture, Peter B. Collins Show.

Road to Nowhere. Carlos Brillembourg on El Helicoide, ArtForum.
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. 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. 
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TerreformUR is grateful for support from institutions (City College of New York—The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, Furthermore: A Program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, Southern California Institute of Architecture, and the Venice Biennale—2010 American Pavilion), from individuals (including Elisabeth Block, Jean-Louis Bourgeois, Elise Jaffe and Jeffrey Brown, Frank and Berta Gehry, Roberta Gratz, Richard Menaker, George Sorkin and a generous anonymous donor), and from architectural offices (Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Rockwell Group, Safdie Architects, Snøhetta, Michael Sorkin Studio, TEN Arquitectos, and Turenscape).
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