The Un-Private House, MoMA, Terence Riley (1999)

Description: This is a book that is the out-of-print publication for the MoMA installation, The Un-Private House. The author is the Chief Curator at the MoMa for Architecture and Design. The book itself is in really great shape (it's clearly been leafed through a few times, so some minor wear) -- please see the photos for more detail and let me know if you have any questions. Thanks for looking! More on the installation:The Un-Private House, the first project in the Lily Auchincloss Series of Architecture Exhibitions, examines 26 contemporary homes by a roster of prominent international architects whose designs reflect the evolution of the private house in response to recent architectural innovations and changing cultural conditions. The privacy in the private house, since its inception, has been predicated on a discernible separation of its inhabitants and activities from both the public realm and other houses. The private house has also been from its establishment a building type that enshrines family life to the exclusion of all other activities. Furthermore, as a space so dedicated, it has been for almost four hundred years largely responsible for the creation and development of those rituals and comforts that we now associate with the domestic. Today, however, these conditions are undergoing tremendous change. The evolving cultural definition of the private house generates significant opportunities for architectural invention. This change is also taking place at a time when architecture is being fueled by enormous new technical and material resources. The private houses discussed here, and the architects who designed them, can thus be seen as not only re-configuring the domestic landscape but laying the groundwork for the first architectural debates of the twenty-first century.

Price: 25 USD

Location: Commerce City, Colorado

End Time: 2025-02-07T00:46:20.000Z

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