Main entry:

Riley, Terence.

Title & Author:

The un-private house / Terence Riley.

Publication:

New York : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, ©1999.

Description:

151 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, July 1-Oct. 5, 1999.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 37-38).
Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- Preface and acknowledgments / Terence Riley -- The un-private house / Terence Riley -- Millbrook residence / Winka Dubbeldam, Archi-tectonics -- Lipschutz/Jones apartment / Frank Lupo/Daniel Rowen, Architects -- Kramlich residence and media collection / Herzog & De Meuron -- Slow house / Diller + Scofidio -- The Digital House / Hariri & Hariri -- Two houses on Borneo Sporenburg / MVRDV -- Glass house @ 2° / Michael Bell -- The Hague Villa / Bernard Tschumi -- Curtain wall house / Shigeru Ban -- Hergott Shepard Residence / Michael Maltzan Architecture -- Shorthand house / Francois De Menil, Architect -- 64 Wakefield / Scogin Elam and Bray Architects -- BV House / Farjadi Farjadi Architects -- Maison à Bordeaux / Rem Koolhass, Office for Metropolitan Architecture -- House in Brasschaat / Xaveer de Geyter Architectenbureau -- House for a bachelor / Joel Sanders, Architect -- Torus house / Preston Scott Cohen -- T-house / Simon Ungers with Thomas Kinslow -- Holley Loft / Thomas Hanrahan and Victoria Meyers, Architects -- Ost/Kuttner Apartment / Kolatan/Mac Donald Studio -- Ghirardo-Kohen House / Clorindo Testa, Architect -- M House / SANAA/Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa & Associates -- Mõbius House / UN Studio/Van Berkel & Bos -- Workhouse / Guthrie + Buresh Architects -- Massey House / Neil M. Denari -- Y House / Steven Holl Architects.

Summary:

"This book looks at twenty-six houses by an international roster of contemporary architects"--Page 4 of cover.
"The Un-Private House exhibition is only the second significant exploration of residential architecture lodged by the Museum of Modern Art, and the first one was way back in 1934. This book is well timed and should prove fascinating to any and all who are interested in considering the infinity of ways in which we might live. This writer's favorite object of contemplation from the book is located in Tokyo and is called the "Curtain Wall House." It stands three stories tall, all with mostly open floor plans on a corner lot. An enormous curtain of fabric hangs along the two sides of the house that face the corner of the lot. In order to close the house in and make it private, one must draw the curtain around the multistory space. When the curtain is open, all the workings of the home are revealed. This is an extreme dwelling with an apparent simplicity that confounds its real meaning. The Un-Private House is the catalog for a show of the same name at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Terence Riley, chief curator of architecture and design at the museum, put the show together and provides all of the text for the book. He suggests that for centuries one of the highest functions of the single-family home has been seclusion from the public realm. Here Riley has compiled a fabulous collection of cutting-edge solutions to this condition. --Loren E. Baldwin --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. How would you build a house for a cyborg? The Un-Private House examines this and other questions confronting domestic architecture as the 20th century turns into the 21st. Changes in family structure, shifting concepts of privacy and domesticity, the home as workplace, and the revolution in communications and media have created totally new relationships between exterior and interior worlds. Photographs, plans, and drawings present 26 projects by architectural firms in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Their innovations include spectacular new materials, including "smart skins" through which houses themselves transmit information, as well as structural forms. The houses presented here, and their architects, are not only reconfiguring the domestic landscape but also launching the first architectural debates of the new century. Architects include: Herzog & de Meuron, Hariri & Hariri, Joel Sanders, Farjadi, Rem Koolhaas, Frank Lupo, Daniel Rowan, Winka Dubbeldam, UN Studio/Van Berkel & Bos, Shigeru Ban, Michael Bell, Michael Maltzan, and Clorindo Testa."--Publisher.

Resources:
e-book
Exhibition history

ISBN:

0870700979 (MoMA, T & H)
9780870700972 (MoMA, T & H)
0810961997 (Abrams)
9780810961999 (Abrams)

Subject:

Architect-designed houses Designs and plans Exhibitions.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Designs and plans Exhibitions.
Privacy Exhibitions.
Maisons conçues par des architectes Dessins et plans Expositions.
Architecture 20e siècle Dessins et plans Expositions.
Vie privée Expositions.
Architect-designed houses
Architecture, Modern
Privacy
Architecture,Domestic 1990s.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
architectural drawings (visual works)
exhibition catalogs.
Architectural drawings
Dessins d'architecture.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 210318
Call No.: NA7126 .R5 1999
Status: Available