forec losed; rehousing the american dream - barry bergdoll

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 University,
New 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, The Philip Johnson
chief
curator of Architecture and design,
MoMA, with reinhold Martin, director,
Temple Hoyne Buell center for the study
of American Architecture, columbia
University. It runs from February 15 to
July 30, 2012
The exhibition is made possible by The

rockefeller Foundation. This is the
second exhibition in the series Issues in
contemporary Architecture, supported
by Andre singer.
The accompanying workshops are made
possible by MoMA’s Wallis Annenberg
Fund for Innovation in contemporary Art
through the Annenberg Foundation.
Additional support for the publication is
provided by The richard H. driehaus
Foundation.
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“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
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secretary shaun donovan’s speech
and the proceedings of the June 18
workshops were transcribed from audio
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cover, back cover, and flaps: details
of the five Foreclosed projects by Mos
Architects, Visible Weather, studio
gang Architects, WorKac, and Zago
Architecture.
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7
Foreword
glenn d. lowry
9
Preface
Henry N. cobb
10
reopening Foreclosure
Barry Bergdoll
19
The Buell Hypothesis
reinhold Martin, leah Meisterlin, and
Anna Kenoff
Projects
55
The oranges, New Jersey
Mos ArcHITecTs: THoUgHTs oN A
WAlKINg
cITY
73
Temple Terrace, Florida
VIsIBle WeATHer: sIMUlTANeoUs
cITY
91
cicero, Illinois
sTUdIo gANg ArcHITecTs: THe
gArdeN IN
THe MAcHINe
109 Keizer, oregon
WorKac: NATUre-cITY

127 rialto, california
ZAgo ArcHITecTUre: ProPerTY WITH
ProPerTIes
145 Public Property
reinhold Martin
Workshops
156 Back to the Burbs
Michael sorkin
162 Workshop Transcripts
174 From crisis to opportunity:
rebuilding
communities in the Wake of Foreclosure
shaun donovan
179 Project 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 ques-
tions. With the complex and timely
project Foreclosed:
Rehousing the American Dream, we
renew that legacy.

It is too often forgotten that precisely
eighty 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 economic
depression began
to make themselves profoundly felt. In
recent years
that advocacy role has again been a
hallmark of our
department of Architecture and design,
particularly in
the series “Issues in contemporary
Architecture,” which
challenges architects to confront
problems they don’t
necessarily face in the direct
commissions and design

competitions that are the usual vehicles
for new design
thinking.
The series was inaugurated in 2010,
with Rising
Currents: Projects for New York’s
Waterfront, which
invited a broad range of designers to
work together to
imagine ways to make cities more
resilient to the ris-
ing sea levels brought on by climate
change. With that
project, Barry Bergdoll, the Museum’s
Philip Johnson
chief curator of Architecture and design,
also cre-
ated a unique collaboration between the
Museum and
its sister institution MoMA Ps1, which
provided studio
space for workshops open to public
visits and debates
while design was under way. That
process was followed
by an exhibition of the results at MoMA.
In Foreclosed,
the second project in the series,
architects, landscape
designers, environmentalists,

economists, engineers,
community activists, and artists, all
practitioners of disci-
plines that separately and implicitly
shape our daily built
environment, have come together to think
collaboratively
and explicitly about new models for
future develop-
ment of suburbs. In an economic climate
more and more
often compared to that 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 lin-
ing 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
century. Here,
in a landscape often leapfrogged over by
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
oppo-
site of its title: to open up new terrain
both for building
differently and for bringing out-of-the
box thinking to
bear on the issues that face our extended
metropolitan
regions. Its innovative methods began
with the col-
laboration between Bergdoll and
Professor reinhold
Martin, director of the Temple Hoyne