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Friday, March 16, 2012

Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream (MoMA, NY)

STUDIO GANG ARCHITECTS' PROPOSAL INCLUDES CONVERTING A FACTORY TO HOUSING IN CICERO, ILLINOIS.JAMES EWING

Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream is an ambitious and significant attempt to rethink the design of American suburbs. Positing that academic and intellectual leaders in architecture have played a too-small role in the recent production of suburbia, the show’s curators, Barry Bergdoll, the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, and Reinhold Martin, Director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, offer a high-profile forum for the architectural practices MOS, Visible Weather, Studio Gang, WORKac, and Zago Architecture to demonstrate their capacity to imagine another future in five economically-challenged American suburbs.
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