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Home Delivery , Museum of Modern Art (Spring 2008)

Home Delivery , Museum of Modern Art (Spring 2008) Home Delivery, Museum of Modern Art (Spring 2008) Sallie Hood, Ron Sakal Edited by Harold Henderson During its final two days in October 2008, we visited the Museum of Modern Art’s visually rollicking exhibition, “Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling”—a multimedia salvo reviewing the intertwined histories of architectural modernism and prefabricated housing, complete with nine commissioned projects: four wall fragments and five full-scale houses. Much of the exhibition lives on in a more linear, tranquil form in the published catalogue Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling, by curators Barry Bergdoll and Peter Christensen), and on MoMA’s website (http://momahomedelivery.org, by Flat, Inc.), which includes a detailed timeline, still and moving images, and time-lapse views of the commissioned houses being fabricated and erected on their temporary site. The website’s three-and-a-half-month blog—featuring posts from the curators, the designers of the commissioned projects, and other exhibition participants—offers an inside view of preparations for the exhibition’s July 20th opening. Now called “Installation Journal Archive,” it includes much information not found elsewhere. How else would we know that designer Richard Horden of the commissioned Micro Compact Home (mch) is preoccupied with the number 26? (See his July 4 post.) Or that the website itself http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Design Issues MIT Press

Home Delivery , Museum of Modern Art (Spring 2008)

Design Issues , Volume 25 (3) – Jul 1, 2009

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MIT Press
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© 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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0747-9360
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1531-4790
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10.1162/desi.2009.25.3.102
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Home Delivery, Museum of Modern Art (Spring 2008) Sallie Hood, Ron Sakal Edited by Harold Henderson During its final two days in October 2008, we visited the Museum of Modern Art’s visually rollicking exhibition, “Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling”—a multimedia salvo reviewing the intertwined histories of architectural modernism and prefabricated housing, complete with nine commissioned projects: four wall fragments and five full-scale houses. Much of the exhibition lives on in a more linear, tranquil form in the published catalogue Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling, by curators Barry Bergdoll and Peter Christensen), and on MoMA’s website (http://momahomedelivery.org, by Flat, Inc.), which includes a detailed timeline, still and moving images, and time-lapse views of the commissioned houses being fabricated and erected on their temporary site. The website’s three-and-a-half-month blog—featuring posts from the curators, the designers of the commissioned projects, and other exhibition participants—offers an inside view of preparations for the exhibition’s July 20th opening. Now called “Installation Journal Archive,” it includes much information not found elsewhere. How else would we know that designer Richard Horden of the commissioned Micro Compact Home (mch) is preoccupied with the number 26? (See his July 4 post.) Or that the website itself

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