NEW YORK: Grid City
Moscow Architecture Biennale, May 21-25, 2014
"The Manhattan Grid is sort of the E=MC2 of planning. It is a unified formula that controls and organizes the forces that make the city what it is, what it was, and what it will become."
Rafael Vinoly
“Beauty,
order and convenience“ were the terms in which New York’s grid was described by
the commission that created it over two hundred years ago. This is how this
arguably most important document in the city's history still viewed today. It
is the grid that organizes Manhattan and other boroughs into regular horizontal
urban blocks on which vertical, seemingly chaotic city stands. Each block or a
cluster of blocks, potentially, is a city in itself. In his Delirious New York,
Rem Koolhaas states: “The grid is, above all, a conceptual speculation.” The
grid with its configuration makes a vast impact on how particular blocks are
developed and what type of programs and specific forms are imagined. 13 present-day
case study projects explore and realize such speculations.
Curator: Vladimir Belogolovsky,
Intercontinental Curatorial Project
Design: Vladimir Okhulkov, Elena Orlova
Architects:
Archi-Tectonics (Winka Dubbeldam), Caples Jefferson Architects, Dattner
Architects, Alexander Gorlin Architects, Grimshaw Architects, Bjarke Ingels
Group (BIG), Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), Marvel Architects, REX (Joshua
Prince-Ramus), Frederic Schwartz Architects, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
(SOM), Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects (SMH+U), TEN Arquitectos (Enrique
Norten), Rafael Vinoly Architects
