Above the Pavement - the Farm! : Architecture & Agriculture at Public Farm 1

WORK ac was one of the first practices we interviewed here at ArchDaily. When we visited their office they were working in P.F.1 (Public Farm 1), their awarded entry for the 2008 P.S.1 summer installation – one of the best installations I’ve seen so far.

An interesting part of the conversation was on how they worked with a mixed group of experts for this project, bringing more into the discussion and finally into the installation. This becomes the central part of the book, with over 150 pages dedicated to a series of interviews with the parties involved, from structural engineers to growing soil experts, telling the story of the process behind P.F.1. This section is structured as a story, but you can still read it picking from any random page. Interesting interview format with no questions, just “answers” that become the narrative of the project.

On the appendix we found a series of recipes for the vegetables that grew on the urban farm, and also a foreword with an interview by Winy Maas with Dan Wood and Amale Andraos.

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Cite: David Basulto. "Above the Pavement - the Farm! : Architecture & Agriculture at Public Farm 1" 01 Sep 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/73679/above-the-pavement-the-farm-architecture-agriculture-at-public-farm> ISSN 0719-8884

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