Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
MoMA
July 20–October 20, 2008
This exhibition will offer the most thorough examination of both the historical and contemporary significance of factory-produced architectures to date. With increasing concern about issues such as sustainability and the swelling global population, prefabrication has again taken center stage as a prime solution to a host of pressing needs.
The prefabricated structure has long served as a central precept in the history of modern architecture, and it continues to spur innovative manufacturing and imaginative design.
The relationship between the drawing board and the finished product has never been more dynamic, but the potential of prefabrication has not yet come to full fruition. The exhibition will examine this phenomenon through historical documents, full-scale reassemblies, and films that trace the roots of prefabrication in the work of architects including Frank Lloyd Wright, Jean Prouvé, and Richard Rogers, corporations such as Lustron, and the imaginative systems of other influential figures, including Thomas Edison and R. Buckminster Fuller.
This contextual component of the exhibition will provide the foundation for a handful of full-scale commissions to be built in MoMA's vacant west lot.
Here, contemporary practitioners and corporations will continue MoMA's rich history of full-scale architectural projects, having the unprecedented opportunity to deploy both commercially viable domestic creations as well as entirely new, speculative prototypes. The fabrication and delivery of these projects will be documented in a special online exhibition, which will underline prefabrication's importance as a matter of process over product.
Furthermore, the delivery and assembly of these projects will function as a real-time urban event that will be visible to the general public from the city streets.
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