“Title: Design for a big-box neighborhood based on the abolition of the buffer zone principle as made possible by the invention of the electric car”

The Organization for Permanent Modernity is a project in architectural urbanism. It exists to further the emancipation of individuals by raising their consciousness about the character of the territories in which they live. We aim for this liberation through a collision with architecture. Architecture’s autonomy is thus placed at the service of a bigger project - territorial consciousness.

•The Organization has an Office in Brussels and Boston, which designs buildings and urban plans.
•The Organization also has a research group based at MIT.
•Their work has been featured in several magazines, such as Volume, Archis, Perspecta, Block, Neutra, New Geographies, etc.

Recent projects by the Organization for Permanent Modernity has included a plan for the coastal defense and development of the Low Countries at the North Sea, a competition win for the biggest landfill in the world (Saemangeum, South-Korea), and a study into the potential of high-speed rail in the USA. Current architecture projects include the design of a 1000ft- landform building in the suburbs of Brussels as an alternative to suburban sprawl. A second project is a ‘generic’ building’, a 200,000 sq.ft. container without program. Both are due for construction in 2012.

We are very happy for Florian and Jing that they won the prestigious PS1 / MOMA Young Architects Program.
That means they will do this years installation in the art center courtyard. The courtyards installation is also venue for the famous Saturday afternoon WARM UP PARTIES.
They came up with a really new approach, which invites to interact with the installation.

They also did a beautiful video of their POLE DANCE designproposal. check out the link...

What happens when the Library of Congress can fit in your pocket?
What will the consequences of informational ubiquity be in the next decade?



Home-room is starting-up 2010 with AUM studio and their new ongoing project, Lodi Library, NY. This is an opportunity to get updated on their latest research, speculations and experiments.
Nothing is better than to start the New Year with “collective forms of knowing” that are shared and discussed in our/your(s) home-room.

The ‘Archive’ has reached an interesting crossroads: a redefinition of the protocols for storage,
display, access, and a transformation of all the institutional, political and disciplinary forms that accompany
collective forms of knowing.

As technologies of preservation and diffusion of information advance, with the promise of preserving massive amounts of information [exponentially produced and exchanged] - libraries, and in particular, public libraries - face a unique challenge in rethinking the archive’s relationship to the creation of new knowledge. How can the new form of the archive- distributed across the network- become active, regenerating public spaces and intensifying the strengths of localized cultures? Will a ’space’ emerge which nurtures and celebrates choices in preservation & exchange, and the actualization and inventions of populations and their respective cultures? Will the concept of culture itself remain?

AUM Studio is an architecture and multimedia design firm co-founded by Carla Leitao and Ed Keller in NYC, in 2003.
Carla and Ed are also design professors in graduate and undergraduate levels of architecture schools in the NY area.
The work of the studio encompasses projects of residential, commercial and institutional architecture as well as design of multimedia installations, online multi-player game scenarios and film scripts.


Home-room is starting-up 2010 with AUM studio and their new ongoing project, Lodi Library, NY. This is an opportunity to get updated on their latest research, speculations and experiments.
Nothing is better than to start the New Year with “collective forms of knowing” that are shared and discussed in our/your(s) home-room.

After the screening film maker Simon Groß, author Nana Ekvtmishvili and editor Stefan Stabenow shared their insights of making a movie and the experiences of shooting in the desert and how the movie changed in the post/production.
Unfortunately the movie is not available in the US.

Check out the talk on our VIDEO page.

Peter Sigrist of Müller Sigrist Architects (Zurich) has his offece set up in Zurich. Florian Idenburg of Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (Brooklyn) has his office set up in New York.

Peter and Florian were talking about their different experiences and their different understanding on teaching and building. The evening developed to a very exciting discussion about architecture today.

Home-room is going international! With the opportune visits of a Swiss architect and a Portuguese Musician as well as a high-in-demand Brooklyn-based Dutch architect, we are hosting our first-ever double feature for double the fun, with architecture first and music to follow. Come for one or both events!