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March 8, 2012 | Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream

A View from Temple Terrace

Posted by Nadine Maleh, Director, Design and Planning, Community Solutions

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 to reflect on the project. Here are thoughts from Nadine Maleh, a member of Visible Weather’s team.

March 7, 2012 | Artists, Behind the Scenes

Architect Collaborations at the MoMA Design Store: Stephan Jaklitsch

Posted by Bonnie Mackay, Director of Creative and Marketing, the MoMA Stores

Terrain Vase. Stephan Jaklitsch. 2011

In 1932, MoMA established the world’s first curatorial department devoted to architecture and design. Since then, the MoMA Design Store has collaborated with a number of established and emerging architects, inviting them to develop thoughtful, engaging home products that encourage exploration of the discipline’s key themes including structure, spatial organization, and materials.

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

January 12, 2012 | Behind the Scenes, Collection & Exhibitions, MoMA PS1

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.

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.

December 14, 2011 | Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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