Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling

The Cases of Japan and Scandinavia: A Panel Discussion

Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling exhibition catalogue contributors Ken Tadashi Oshima and Rasmus Waern present "Postulating the Potential of Prefab: The Case of Japan" and "Prefab as a Model of Society." The lectures consider the historical, cultural, and contemporary use, understanding, and significance of prefabricated housing in Japan and the Nordic countries. Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, introduces the evening. Peter Christensen, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, MoMA, moderates a discussion.

Ken Tadashi Oshima is an assistant professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington, working in the areas of transnational architectural history, theory, representation, and design. Forthcoming publications include a monograph on Arata Isozaki (Phaidon, 2008) and Constructing Kokusai Kenchiku: International Architecture in Interwar Japan (University of Washington Press, 2009). He co-curated Crafting a Modern World: The Architecture and Design of Antonin and Noémi Raymond (The University of Pennsylvania, 2006; UC Santa Barbara 2007; Kamakura, 2007, published 2007 by Princeton Architectural Press) and co-edited and authored Visions of the Real: Modern Houses in the 20th Century (2000). His articles on the international context of architecture and urbanism in Japan have been published in The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Architectural Theory Review, Architecture + Urbanism, Kenchiku Bunka, Japan Architect, L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, and the AA Files. Oshima received his undergraduate education in East Asian Studies and Visual & Environmental Studies from Harvard University. He received his Master of Architecture degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in architectural history and theory from Columbia University.

Rasmus Waern is a Swedish architect and architectural historian. He is a writing architect at Wingårdh Architects and teaches architectural history at the Royal School of Technology in Stockholm, as well as serving as the chairman for the Swedish Alvar Aalto Society. He is a contributor to numerous national and international architectural magazines and is the author of Gert Wingårdh, Architect (Birkhåuser Verlag, 2001) and The Time of the Competitions: The Impact of Architectural Competitions in Sweden in the Bourgeois Era (Arkitektur Förlag, 1998). He has edited and contributed to numerous collective works, such as Crucial Words: Conditions for Contemporary Architecture (Birkhäuser, 2008) and Guide to Architecture in Sweden (Arkitektur Förlag, 2001) and has served as editor for the Swedish Review of Architecture and as vice president for the Swedish Museum of Architecture.

This program is a collaboration between the Architectural League of New York and the Museum of Modern Art.

PopRally Presents: Home Delivery House Party

PopRally invites you to a very special preview of the exhibition Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. See the exhibition's outdoor component—a building project on the Museum's west lot featuring five prefabricated houses that you can explore inside and out. Dance to the tunes of DJs Tropical Jeremy and Matthew Radune, and buy treats from your favorite New York City street-food vendors!

Home Delivery explores the prefabricated house as a replicable object of design and a critical agent in the discourse of sustainability, architectural invention, and new material and formal research.

This event will take place rain or shine. You must be twenty-one or older to attend this event. Enter on Fifty-fourth Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues.

PopRally would like to thank Grolsch and Fred for their sponsorship.

PopRally is funded by the generous support of Katherine Farley and Jerry I. Speyer.

Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling

Open House

To complement the wide variety of historical and contemporary designs and models of prefabricated architecture featured in MoMA's galleries, architects and designers lead the public through their own full-scale projects situated outside in the lot to the west of the Museum. Groups meet in the main lobby of the Museum. Space is limited.

Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling

Representatives of three firms (Contemporary Architecture Practice, Reiser Umemoto, and Marble Fairbanks) featured in the exhibition Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling present their views on digital fabrication and mass customization and engage in a panel discussion moderated by Peter Christensen, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, MoMA. Introduction by Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, MoMA.

Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling

Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling

Prefab

We'll visit Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling to consider how architects use prefabrication in their designs for contemporary homes. Then we'll put our design skills to the test as we construct model dwellings of our own.

Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling

This lecture provides an overview of Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. The exhibition is 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).

Lecturer Peter Christensen (bArch, Cornell University; MDesS candidate, Harvard University) is a curatorial assistant in the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA.

Home Made: Five Perspectives on Prefabrication

Many architects throughout the twentieth century have focused their creative energies on the development of design for prefabricated structures. From domestic dwellings to imaginative prototypes, the possibilities for living in the modern world are vast. In this panel, five architects whose work is exhibited in Home Delivery make brief presentations on their vision and practice. They include James Timberlake FAIA (Fellow, American Institute of Architects), and Partner, KieranTimberlake Associates, Philadelphia; Lawrence Sass, Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Oskar Leo Kaufmann, Oskar Leo Kaufmann & Albert Rüf; Douglas Gauthier & Jeremy Edmiston, New York; and Richard Horden, Horden Cherry Lee Architects, London.