THE TRIP

Our understanding of the segment of the Northeast Megaregion between the Philadelphia and Baltimore metropolitan statistical areas is rooted in both people and place.

To engage with legacies of infrastructural planning and design in the region, we visited the Architectural Archives at Penn, and spent a week in Baltimore. Two major projects that supported the establishment of the practice Wallace-McHarg, the Inner Harbor and the Plan for the Valleys, guided some of our study at the archives and in Baltimore.

Additionally, we visited a string of sites along the I-95 corridor to better understand the landscapes, connections, and differences between these major cities. As our work in the studio was part of larger research efforts of the Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions (CM2) consortium, we joined researchers and practitioners in Austin, TX at the close of our studio process to present our findings.