2012–2014
Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream was an exploration of new architectural possibilities for cities and suburbs in the aftermath of the recent foreclosure crisis. During summer 2011, five interdisciplinary teams of architects, urban planners, ecologists, engineers, and landscape designers worked in public workshops at MoMA PS1 to envision new housing and transportation infrastructures that could catalyze urban transformation, particularly in the country's suburbs. Responding to The Buell Hypothesis, a research report prepared by the Buell Center, teams – lead by MOS, Visible Weather, Studio Gang, WORKac, and Zago Architecture – focused on a specific location within one of five "megaregions" across the country to come up with inventive solutions for the future of American suburbs.
On Mar. 23, 2013, a Public Workshop was held to address the housing system by comparing the Indian and American contexts.
Exhibited from March 22 - April 20, 2013 at Studio X, Mumbai, the opening was kicked off with a public lecture by Reinhold Martin.
In the summer of 2011, Buell and MoMA invited five interdisciplinary teams to develop proposals for housing that would open new routes through the mortgage-foreclosure crisis.
Exhibited from September 13 - 23, 2012 at Studio X, Beijing.
On Feb. 18th, The Buell Center marked the completion of the publication and website, Comments on Foreclosed with a public event.
On Jun. 19, 2011, Open Studios were held at MoMA PS1 to design and present hypothetical projects for imagining a sustainable and equitable future for America's suburbs.
On Sep. 17, 2011, the Open Studios came to an end with a keynote address by U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan.
The exhibition opening for Foreclosed was celebrated with a day-long forum of talks and round table discussion, followed by a reception.
The two-day symposium brought together five multidisciplinary teams working on projects for the exhibition.
On Feb. 13, 2012, the Film Screening of Pruitt-Igoe Myth was followed by a discussion with Catherine Fennell and Reinhold Martin.
This publication and website are a record of what was said about Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream, an architecture exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, from April 2011 through August 2012.
Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream is an exploration of new architectural possibilities for American cities and suburbs in the aftermath of the recent foreclosure crisis in the United States.
The Buell Hypothesis examines the cultural assumptions underlying the "American Dream" in the context of the foreclosure crisis, suburban sprawl, and the architectural public sphere.