PennDesign Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Chris Marcinkoski and PORT Urbanism Co-founder Andrew Moddrell were selected as Artists-in-Residence for 2015 Chicago Ideas Week, held October 17 - 23. The firm’s installation, Thick City Pavilion, employed interactive design elements to spotlight Chicago’s architectural past, present and future.
The work of PORT Urbanism can be further experienced as part of the exhibition BOLD: Alternative Scenarios for Chicago, being staged at Chicago’s Cultural Center as part of the city’s first Architecture Biennial. Marcinkoski and Moddrell were featured in Architectural Record as part of the magazine’s coverage of the inaugural event:
"Two time zones and 700 miles may separate Christopher Marcinkoski and Andrew Moddrell, but that doesn’t prevent the founders of PORT Urbanism from collaborating on research and large-scale public projects. Thirty-eight-year-old Marcinkoski, based in Philadelphia, where he teaches in the University of Pennsylvania Department of Landscape Architecture, and 36-year-old Chicago-based Moddrell, who teaches at UIC’s architecture school and at the University of Michigan, are both licensed architects—'but we don’t do buildings,' says Marcinkoski. “'Our work tends to be in the public realm: infrastructure, parks, waterfronts. We’re interested in using civic space as a medium for negotiating broader urban issues that are related to environmental, social, and economic concerns.'"
The Chicago Architecture Biennial runs until January 3, 2016. Read the full article in Architectural Record online.
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