Home Delivery
dal 19/7/2008 al 19/10/2008
Segnalato da
Kieran Timberlake Associates
Jeremy Edmiston
Douglas Gauthier
Horden Cherry Lee Architects / Haack
Hopfner Architects
Lawrence Sass
Oskar Leo Kaufmann
Barry Bergdoll
Peter Christensen
19/7/2008
Home Delivery
The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York
The exposition is both a survey of the past, present and future of the prefabricated home and a building project on the Museum's vacant west lot. The 5 homes erected on the vacant west lot are designed by Kieran Timberlake Associates; Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas Gauthier; Horden Cherry Lee Architects / Haack + Hopfner Architects; Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Planning / Associate Professor Lawrence Sass; and Oskar Leo Kaufmann.
Organized by Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, and Peter Christensen, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design.
Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling is both a survey of the past, present and future of the prefabricated home and a building project on the Museum's vacant west lot. Not since the mid-century House in the Garden series has MoMA built occupiable model buildings to demonstrate contemporary issues to the public. The fives homes erected on the vacant west lot are designed by Kieran Timberlake Associates (Philadelphia); Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas Gauthier (New York); Horden Cherry Lee Architects / Haack + Höpfner Architects (London/Munich); Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Planning / Associate Professor Lawrence Sass (Cambridge); and Oskar Leo Kaufmann (Dornbirn, Austria).
The exhibition, and its accompanying Web site (http://www.momahomedelivery.org), display the process of architectural design and production in equal measure with the actual end result. Within the gallery, eighty-four architectural projects spanning 180 years are presented by means of film, architectural models, original drawings and blueprints, fragments, photographs, patents, games, sales materials and propaganda, toys, and partial reconstructions. This diverse collection of material illustrates how the prefabricated house has been, and continues to be, not only a reflection on the house as a replicable object of design but also a critical agent in the discourse of sustainability, architectural invention, and new material and formal research.
The exhibition is the fifth in a series of five exhibitions made possible by The Lily Auchincloss Fund for Contemporary Architecture and is also generously supported by The Rockefeller Foundation and by Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley.
Additional funding is provided by David Teiger, The Winston Foundation, Inc., and the Foundation for the Advancement of Architectural Thought.
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