The Museum of Modern Art opens Foreclosed. Rehousing the American Dream, an exhibition on view February 15, 2012–July 30, 2012, in the The Robert Menschel Architecture and Design Gallery.
Architectural model for Studio Gang Architects The Garden in the Machine project for Cicero, Illinois. Photograph James Ewing. © 2011 James Ewing
The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 announce a 14-month initiative to examine new architectural possibilities for American cities and suburbs in the context of the recent foreclosure crisis in the United States. Organized by Barry Bergdoll, MoMA’s Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, with Reinhold Martin, Director of Columbia University’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream will enlist five interdisciplinary teams of architects to envision a rethinking of housing and related infrastructures that could catalyze urban transformation, particularly in the country’s suburbs. Drawing on ideas proposed in The Buell Hypothesis, a forthcoming research publication by Mr. Martin, and Leah Meisterlin and Anna Kenoff of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center, the teams will participate in a four-month workshop phase beginning in May, with each focused on a specific “megaregion,” a metropolitan area that lies within a corridor between two major cities. – www.moma.org