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Forty years after French protestors took to the streets with the rallying cry Sous les pavés, la plage! (Beneath the pavements, the beach!), a new form of radical expression took shape at MoMA’s P.S.1 courtyard in Queens, New York. Above the Pavement—the Farm! records the conceptualization, design, and construction of P.F.1 (Public Farm 1), WORKac’s winning design for the 2008 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Competition.

The book features a lively mélange of voices depicting the efforts of WORKac and a team of more than 150 collaborators—farmers, politicians, horticulturists, technicians, soil scientists, engineers, architecture students, and artists—to create a working urban farm, hoisted 30 feet high, using industrial cardboard tubes filled with more than 50 varieties of locally grown fruits and vegetables. With additional contributions by artist and agricultural activist Fritz Haeg, architectural historian Meredith TenHoor, architect Winy Maas, and head chef Michael Anthony of New York City’s Gramercy Tavern, Above the Pavement—the Farm! presents a delectable range of ideas and issues situated at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, and food.

Princeton Architectural Press, 2010
Edited by Amale Andraos and Dan Wood
Foreword by Fritz Haeg
Afterword by Winy Maas
Graphic Design: Project Projects