MoMA The Museum of Modern Art (Venue Partner)
11 W 53rd St
212.708.9400
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Horden Cherry Lee Architects/Haack + Höpfner, micro compact home, Courtesy MoMA
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July 20, 2008 – Oct 20, 2008
Mondays (10:30am–5:30pm)
Wednesdays–Thursdays (10:30am–5:30pm)
Fridays (10:30am–8pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (10:30am–5:30pm)
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- Price
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$20
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Prefab living typically calls to mind nightmarish suburban communities with impossibly pastoral names like "Autumnal Spring." But MoMA's Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, Barry Bergdoll, attempts to dislodge such dreary associations with Home Delivery, advocating for prefabricated architecture as one solution to the rapid increase in global population. Staged in MoMA's vacant west lot, the exhibition solidifies the role of the ready-made domus in the past 180 years of design history. Besides the myriad multimedia works exploring modular living, you can also tour five occupiable model homes — constructed offsite and delivered to the museum — from the blueprints of such esteemed firms as Kieran Timberlake Associates and Haack + Höpfner Architects.
