Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling, now on view at MoMA

Learn more at http://moma.org/homedelivery
On view through October 20

Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling is both 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).

The exhibition, and its accompanying Web site, display the process of architectural design and production in equal measure with the actual end result. Within the gallery, eighty-four architectural projects spanning 180 years are presented by means of film, architectural models, original drawings and blueprints, fragments, photographs, patents, games, sales materials and propaganda, toys, and partial reconstructions. This diverse collection of material illustrates how the prefabricated house has been, and continues to be, not only a reflection on the house as a replicable object of design but also a critical agent in the discourse of sustainability, architectural invention, and new material and formal research.

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[cquerales]

We cooled the Cellophane House with three ultra light fans that created a chimney at the top designed with Ove Arup it was a pain to convince the MoMA we had to use a mechanical system

[NekoKunX]

I love the Micro Compact Home!!!!!!!!!

note: Im Mexican

[thomasuras]

face it they need to design homes the average Mexican can build

[tunenas]

Pretty sterile living spaces

[lkajiess]

I'd imagine there was a pretty high thermal load from the exhibition goers.

[leieye9]

All the houses were sweatboxes exept for the cellophane house

[lvpdesign]

The long plywood house with tiny holes for windows was a sweat box when I was in it, and that was in the evening with cool weather.

The man who said we should live in small houses. Okay but how small is your house?

This is a very interesting exhibition but when it comes to climate control more details need to be in the works. It's more of an idealized concept.

[reivilo]

these houses are cool looking but have no insulation, plus extremely expensive materials. carpenters could have done better than intellects.