Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling event at the Center for Architecture on Tuesday 9/2 · Aug 27, 10:12 AM
Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
Tuesday, 09/02/2008, 6:00–8:00pm (RSVP)
Location: Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place
Price: Free
Representatives of three firms (Contemporary Architecture Practice, Reiser Umemoto and Marble Fairbanks) featured in the Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling exhibition on view at MoMA through October 20 will present their views on digital fabrication and mass customization and engage in a panel discussion moderated by Peter Christensen. Introduction by Barry Bergdoll.
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).
Atlas of Novel Tectonics by Reiser + Umemoto and Loblolly House: Elements of a New Architecture by KieranTimberlake Associates are available from Princeton Architectural Press
The exhibition displays 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.
Speakers: Introduction by Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, MoMA; Speakers include Ali Rahim and Hina Jamelle, Contemporary Architecture Practice; Neil Cook and Michael Overby, Reiser Umemoto; Scott Marble and Karen Fairbanks, and Marble Fairbanks.
Panel moderated by Peter Christensen, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, MoMA.
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