Earlier this year the AIA recognized our globe-trotting president Michael Sorkin with the 2019 Collaborative Achievement Award. Along with Jan Gehl Hon. FAIA and Dr. Anne Taylor Hon. AIA, Sorkin will be at this weekend's AIA Conference in Las Vegas to discuss key concepts developed over years of research and analysis on how architecture can support a human-centered approach.
Michael Sorkin Studio is a first-stage winner! The design competition was organized by NYC HPD and AIANY for small-scale urban infill housing and received over 400 proposals from all around the world.
This volumepresents a careful architectural study of an area in downtown Phnom Penh constructed on twenty-four hectares of landfill along the swampy floodplain of the Bassac River from the perspectives of artists and residents who have lived through five decades of genocide, exile, return, and eviction.
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, David Grahame Shane, 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).
