[...]... of the Museum’s early years in the 1930s, the curators have presented the workshop’s design teams with the challenge of seeing a silver lining in the economic downturn—of finding a moment to reflect on the inner ring of suburbs, and on the possibility that they offer the most urgent and most environmentally and often socially sound terrain for rethinking American metropolitan regions in the twenty-first... years ago, the Museum’s epoch-making Modern Architecture: International Exhibition of 1932 not only promoted the aesthetic principles of what curators Henry-russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson saw as an emerging “International style,” but also—with the collaboration of the writer lewis Mumford—advocated housing reform in the slums of New York and other American cities as the effects of the worldwide... credits 180 Acknowledgments 182 Trustees of The Museum of Modern Art Foreword In its promotion of the most pertinent and innovative architecture of the day, The Museum of Modern Art has since its founding given issues of housing and urbanism pride of place alongside aesthetic and formal questions With the complex and timely project Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream, we renew that legacy It is too... face the current economic crisis—a crisis in which the calamity of foreclosure has been the most widely felt catalytic episode The five multidisciplinary teams that accepted our invitation to participate in Foreclosed have dared to venture that the imagination of the architect, with essential support from other disciplines, can bring the problem of housing into focus in a way that stimulates the needed... documents appearing as prologue and afterword to the work presented herein: The Buell Hypothesis the proposition that provoked the endeavor—and a critical essay evaluating the analytic responses and synthetic design proposals received from workshop participants The subject of housing and its relationship to concepts of public and private in American society is now at the forefront of our consciousness, yet... for bringing out-of -the box thinking to bear on the issues that face our extended metropolitan regions Its innovative methods began with the collaboration between Bergdoll and Professor reinhold Martin, director of the Temple Hoyne Buell center for the study of American Architecture at columbia University’s graduate school of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation I am grateful to them for shepherding... engaging an increasingly broad public in the issues at stake, from the MoMA Ps1 workshop and open-house programs, through the website with blog and commentary, to the exhibition at the Museum I would also like to thank our colleagues at MoMA Ps1 for making this experiment possible Finally, on behalf of the staff and trustees of the Museum, I would like to thank The rockefeller Foundation, Andre singer,... Innovation in contemporary Art through the Annenberg Foundation, and The richard H driehaus Foundation, as well as columbia University’s Buell center, for their indispensable support for the workshop, exhibition, and this publication glenn d lowry director The Museum of Modern Art 8 Preface The mission of the Buell center is to advance the interdisciplinary study of American architecture, urbanism, and... Planning and Preservation, the center is the only institution of its kind in the United states devoted specifically to the study of American architecture during the three decades since its formation, in 1982, the center has sponsored numerous research projects, design workshops, public programs, publications, and awards In joining with The Museum of Modern Art to sponsor the workshop whose products... developers looking for places to build ever farther from the urban core, are fabrics that have the potential to serve a much 7 broader range of the population In fact the workshop has discovered how diverse the country’s suburbs indeed are, and how many opportunities for new types of design engagement reside there Foreclosed aims at nothing less than the opposite of its title: to open up new terrain . York Fore- closed: reHoUsINg THe AMerIcAN dreAM Published in conjunction with the exhibition Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream, organized at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, by Barry Bergdoll, . x1 y1 w1 h2" alt="" Fore- closed Barry Bergdoll reinhold Martin The Museum of Modern Art, New York In association with The Temple Hoyne Buell center for the study of American Architecture, columbia. York 10019 © 2012 The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Buell Hypothesis,” pp. 19–52, and the descriptions of the sites on pp. 55– 57, 73–75, 91–93, 109–11, and 127–29 are all © 2012 The Trustees