PORT News
October 22, 2011
Christopher Marcinkoski and Andrew Moddrell presented the work of PORT A+U as part of the Economic Landscapes panel at the After Effects - Emerging Metrics in Landscape Architecture symposium at the Ohio State University's Knowlton School of Architecture. Read more HERE.
October 15, 2011
Christopher Marcinkoski and Andrew Moddrell presented the work of PORT A+U as part of the "More Speculation" session at the MAS Context Analog event at Golden Age, the artist-run project space located in Chicago's West Loop. Read more HERE.
October 10, 2011
Christopher Marcinkoski participated in How do I learn to stop worrying and love nuclear energy? organized as part of Columbia University GSAPP's Underdome series. Read more about the event here - The Underdome Sessions V
September 10, 2011
Christopher Marcinkoski met up with Dr. David Suzuki in Detroit/Windsor to discuss the ecological future of cities and infrastructure as part of an upcoming episode of The Nature of Things, Dr. Suzuki's long-running documentary program for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The episode is scheduled to air in early 2012. Check back here for the date and time.
July 27, 2011
Christopher Marcinkoski participated in the Municipal Art Society of New York's Waterside Pier charrette that explored ideas for re-envisioning a former Consolidated Edison site that stretches from 38th to 41st Streets along the East River. Christopher was one of seven designers invited to lead groups of community stakeholders in a discussion of the pier's potential. The daylong event was recently featured in the New York Times (though unmentioned, that's Christopher sketching in the foreground!)
July 12, 2011
Andrew Moddrell traveled to Washington D.C. to participate on an advisory panel for the National Endowment for the Arts inaugural "Our Town" initiative that recently awarded more than $6.5 million to be invested in communities that are supporting the arts as part of a community revitalization strategy. Grants were awarded to 51 communities in 34 states that have created public-private partnerships to strengthen the arts while shaping the social, physical, and economic characters of their neighborhoods, towns, cities, and regions.
June 24, 2011
PORT A+U receives an honorable mention in the Van Alen Institute's Life at the Speed of Rail competition for its I Love GLC (Great Lakes City) provocation. Info regarding the competition and other award winners can be found here: Van Alen
April 25, 2011
An interview with Christopher Marcinkoski is featured in Next American City's Buzz. Read the full interview here: Next American City
April 19, 2011:
Andrew Moddrell presents PORT A+U's work as part of the Instituto Cervantes of Chicago 2011 architecture lecture series. The "Young Architects of Chicago" presentation was organized in conjunction with the institute's ongoing Young Architects of Spain: A Window to the Unknown exhibit.
February 3, 2011
While leading his PENNDesign studio trip to Madrid, Christopher Marcinkoski was interviewed about his research and the work of PORT on PlanetaBETA, a radio program devoted to architectural culture in different formats hosted by Enrique Encabo and Inma E. Maluenda. Listen to the full interview (en Espanol!) here: PlanetaBETA
November 8, 2010:
PORT A+U is awarded the unanimous first prize in the FORMCities design competition sponsored by Mississippi State University and the Jackson Community Design center. PORT's project - Re-Cultivating the Forest City - proposes to transform Cleveland, Ohio's lower Cuyahoga River Valley into a new Urban River Landscape Infrastructure that enhances and expands the ecological value of the river corridor, while simultaneously serving to reorient the economy and urban form of the City through a strategy of productive re-colonization of the Valley.
October 29, 2010:
Christopher Marcinkoski presents PORT A+U's entry into the Van Alen Institute's Urban Voids: Grounds for Change International Design Competition as part of VAI's IDEAS AT WORK: THREE COMPETITIONS FOR PUBLIC SPACE event. The evening includes presentations by selected winners and a panel discussion with Deenah Loeb, Executive Director of Philadelphia’s City Parks Association, and Ray Gastil, founding director of VAI and former director of City Planning for New York City and Seattle.
October 15, 2010:
Christopher Marcinkoski participates in a roundtable discussion organized by Philadelphia's City Parks Association to celebrate the book launch of URBAN VOIDS: Grounds for Change. The event will be held at the Philadelphia AIA's Center for Architecture and includes Olympia Kazi, Executive Director of the Van Alen Institute and members of the grand prize winning team from URBAN VOIDS.
July 31, 2010:
Christopher Marcinkoski participates in the INTERNATIONAL ULTZAMA CAMPUS 2010 - "on mobility” - in Pamplona, Spain. Sponsored by the the Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad, the conference focuses on projective perceptions of cities and models for future occupation of urban territories based upon new strategies relating to personal mobility. Conference participants include Juan Herreros, Jorge Silvetti, Wilfried Wang, Jose Luis Vallejo and Kelly Shannon.
June 16th, 2010
PORT A+U is selected as a semi-finalist in the Terreform 1 ONE PRIZE competition.
May 3rd, 2010:
Andrew Moddrell's project "STL SuperConnect" earns honorable mention for the 2010 Steedman Competition hosted by Washington University in St. Louis. The 2010 competition considered the urban relationship between the City of St. Louis and the Mississippi River. The jury selected STL SuperConnect for citation because the proposal "boldly envisions as prominent a future in East St. Louis as St. Louis itself, the two great future cities connected by a broad infrastructure and economic development belt that spans across the Mississippi River."
More information is available on the official competition website.
November 16th, 2009:
PORT A+U's project "Carbon T.A.P. // Tunnel Algae Park" is selected as the winning entry in the UCLA cityLAB WPA 2.0 infrastructural design competition. The award was announced at the conclusion of the WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture Symposium at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. on November 16th.
The competition jury included Stan Allen, Thom Mayne, Marilyn Jordan Taylor, Elizabeth Diller, Cecil Balmond and Walter Hood.
More details at the WPA 2.0 website.
August 29th, 2009:
PORT A+U is selected as a top 6 finalist in the WPA 2.0 competition hosted by UCLA cityLAB.
PORT A+U will travel to Los Angeles for an "experts workshop" September 26th and later present their project "Carbon T.A.P. // Tunnel Algae Park" at a National Building Museum symposium in Washington, D.C. November 16th.