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January 19, 2012 | Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream

Inviting Consultants to the Design Table

Posted by Zak Kostura, Structural Engineer, Arup New York

The Museum of Modern Art and The Buell Center invited a series of team participants and observers who attended workshops for MoMA’s exhibition Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream—which opens in February—to reflect on the project. Here are thoughts from Zak Kostura Read more

Checking in on Holding Pattern

Posted by Daniel D'Oca, Tobias Armborst, Georgeen Theodore, Rebecca Beyer Winik, Interboro Partners

View of Holding Pattern installation in MoMA PS1 courtyard. Summer 2011. Photo by Interboro Partners

We thought it might be a good time to check in on Holding Pattern, our project for the 2011 Young Architects Program. Holding Pattern was deinstalled from the MoMA PS1 courtyard four months ago, but the deinstallation didn’t mark the end of the project—just the start of its second phase. Read more

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December 21, 2011 | Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream

Foreclosed: The Role of the Team in the Design Process

Posted by Alexander J. Felson, Assistant Professor, jointly appointed and joint degree program director, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Yale School of Architecture

The Museum of Modern Art and The Buell Center invited a series of team participants and observers who attended workshops for MoMA’s exhibition Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream, which opens in February, to reflect on the project. Here are thoughts from the Urban Ecology and Design Laboratory (UEDLAB) and its director, Alexander Felson, a member of Andrew Zago’s team.

Foreclosed: Reverse Engineering

Posted by Jesse M. Keenan, Director of Research, Center for Urban Real Estate, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University

MoMA and The Buell Center invited a series of team participants and observers who attended workshops for The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream, which opens in February, to reflect on the project. Here are thoughts from Jesse Keenan, a member of Michael Bell and Eunjeong Seong’s team. Read more

November 30, 2011 | Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream

Foreclosed: Thoughts on Cicero and Collaboration with Jeanne Gang

Posted by Theaster Gates, Jr., Director of Arts and Public Life, Office of the Provost, Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago

MoMA and The Buell Center invited a series of team participants and observers who attended workshops for The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream, which opens in February, to reflect on the project. Here are thoughts from Theaster Gates, Jr., a member of the Jeanne Gang’s team. Read more

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November 23, 2011 | Collection & Exhibitions, Design, Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream

Foreclosed: Buying into the “American Dream”

Posted by Alex Ulam, urban planning and real estate writer

MoMA and The Buell Center invited a series of team participants and observers who attended workshops for The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream, which opens in February, to reflect on the project. Here are thoughts from journalist Alex Ulam. Read more

November 2, 2011 | Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream

Foreclosed: MoMA Takes on Suburbia

Posted by Karen Kubey, writer and researcher

The severe effects of the current economic crisis on suburbs across America make it more urgent than ever to rethink the designs of our suburban landscapes. Disconnected single-family homes requiring private automobile transport seem to form a less and less viable pattern of settlement. Read more

October 24, 2011 | Library and Archives, MoMA PS1

From the Records of MoMA PS1: Space Is the Place

Posted by Alana Miller, Project Archives Assistant

80th Precinct Building. Exhibition and studio space on top two floors operated by Institute for Art and Urban Resources (I.A.U.R.), later known as P.S.1. Photograph by Nancy Moran. 653 Grand Avenue, Brooklyn, New York (December 1972). Resin-coated print. MoMA PS1, 2299. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York

Walking down Washington Avenue in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights, I frequently pass a handsome brick building with the telltale green lanterns of a former police precinct headquarters. Regal, imposing, and even a little bit spooky, the 80th Precinct Building is one of the prominent landmarks of my pedestrian and neighborhood life. Read more

Foreclosed: Close of the Workshop Phase

Posted by Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design

U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan delivers the keynote address, “From Crisis to Opportunity: Rebuilding Communities in the Wake of Foreclosure”

We ended the workshop phase of Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream on Saturday, September 17, 2011, with a series of Open Studios Read more

Foreclosed: Two Weeks Left…

Posted by Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design

The multidisciplinary teams working on projects for the exhibition Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream have two weeks to go in the workshop phase before the final public Open Studios at MoMA PS1 on Saturday, September 17. Read more

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