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Thirteen Forum: Home Delivery: The Cases of Japan and Scandanavia
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The Museum of Modern Art's (www.moma.org/ ) exhibition, Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling (www.moma.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.php?id=5476), surveys the past, present and future of the prefabricated home. This panel focuses on two quintessential prefab hubs, Japan and the Nordic countries. Ken Tadashi Oshima (http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Ken%20Tadashi%20Oshima&page=1), assistant professor of architecture at the University of Washington, speaks on the potentials of prefab in Japan, a country where the marketing of homes (http://www.toyota.co.jp/en/more_than_cars/housing/index.html)is similar to the marketing of cars. Rasmus Waern (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?ATH=Rasmus+Waern), Swedish architect and architectural historian, speaks on prefab as a model of society in the Nordic countries. A panel discussion is then moderated by Peter Christensen, curatorial assistant in the MoMA Architecture & Design department. This event was held by MoMA (www.moma.org/ ) and by The Architectural League of New York (www.archleague.org). The Home Delivery exhibition is up through October 20, 2008.
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