Who needs a fancy designer when builders all over the country know how to construct a peaked-roof single-family house?
The Museum of Modern Art’s small but magnificently ambitious new show “Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream” makes an overwhelming case that the two camps need each other now. Today’s suburb has little to do with the outwardly tidy, seething, monochrome world of Updike or Revolutionary Road.
— nymag.com
Related, on Archinect, The CRIT: Thoughts on MoMA's Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream
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Thought this point regarding the need to realistically engage the existing suburbs instead of proposing new models / new forms of (sub)urbanism is key:
"But suburbanites like the suburbs. To dismiss the deeply ingrained desire for a buffer zone between one household and another is to turn potential allies into a hostile cul-de-sac army. You can’t wish the ’burbs away, and you can’t turn them into imitation cities."
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