Session 18: "Moonwalking Or (The Expected Virtue of Social Architecture) with Andres Jaque, winner of MoMA PS1's YAP"

Published: Feb. 26, 2015, 6:03 p.m.

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Winner of this year\'s MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program, Andr\\xe9s Jaque of the\\xa0Office for Political Innovation, joins us on the podcast this week to discuss his winning design, COSMO. In a continued thread from last year\'s YAP, The Living\'s "Hy-Fi", Jaque\'s COSMO focuses on issues of sustainability and ecology \\u2013 its main element is a series of pipes that will purify water with biological treatments.

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Before winning the YAP, Jaque\'s office already had a piece in MoMA\'s permanent collection,\\xa0IKEA Disobedients\\xa0(2011), the museum\'s first "architectural performance" acquisition.\\xa0COSMO will be installed from June 23 through September 7.

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