As an invited contribution to the 2015 exhibition Measure, modem’s Nicholas de Monchaux produced a series of alternative facades for the Storefront for Art and Architecture. ...more

Modem was part of one of the ten teams selected to participate in the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge. In this year-long ideas competition, interdisciplinary design teams worked alongside community members to identify critical areas throughout the Bay Area and to propose community-based solutions to strengthen the region’s resilience to sea-level rise, severe storms, flooding and earthquakes. ...more

Historically, Venice was not confined to the dense network of isole shaped from sandbars in the early Middle Ages and cleaved by the Grand Canal. Rather, it was an interlinked archipelago stretching the length and breadth of the lagoon, in which a variety of innovative, incompatible, or inconvenient functions were diffused. Today, communities in the lagoon and its margins—tourists, residents, and commuters, alike—move separately along highly prescribed routes, yet rarely across the surface of the water that connects them. ...more