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Interiors in Film

What is your favorite cinematic interior? We can’t help but think of the obvious: Woody Allen’s “Interiors.” Apartment Therapy wrote a great post on the same. 

Legno! [via Swiss Miss] 

It’s his second home, and 650 square feet.  

One show we are looking forward to this summer is MOMA’s Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling (July 20-October 20). 

From MOMA’s web-site: This exhibition will offer the most thorough examination of both the historical and contemporary significance of factory-produced architectures to date. With increasing concern about issues such as sustainability and the swelling global population, prefabrication has again taken center stage as a prime solution to a host of pressing needs. The prefabricated structure has long served as a central precept in the history of modern architecture, and it continues to spur innovative manufacturing and imaginative design. The relationship between the drawing board and the finished product has never been more dynamic, but the potential of prefabrication has not yet come to full fruition. The exhibition will examine this phenomenon through historical documents, full-scale reassemblies, and films that trace the roots of prefabrication in the work of architects including Frank Lloyd Wright, Jean Prouvé, and Richard Rogers, corporations such as Lustron, and the imaginative systems of other influential figures, including Thomas Edison and R. Buckminster Fuller. 

This contextual component of the exhibition will provide the foundation for a handful of full-scale commissions to be built in MoMA’s vacant west lot. Here, contemporary practitioners and corporations will continue MoMA’s rich history of full-scale architectural projects, having the unprecedented opportunity to deploy both commercially viable domestic creations as well as entirely new, speculative prototypes. The fabrication and delivery of these projects will be documented in a special online exhibition, which will underline prefabrication’s importance as a matter of process over product. Furthermore, the delivery and assembly of these projects will function as a real-time urban event that will be visible to the general public from the city streets. 

[photo: Kieran Timberlake Architects. Cellophane House, as designed for MoMA's Home Deliveryexhibition. Front view. © 2008 Kieran Timberlake Architects] 

[ photo credit: Patrick Andrade]  

Writer Lawrence Weschler swears that wood blocks help him work on book structure. He writes, on Transom:I procrastinate. I play with blocks. I have lots and lots of blocks, wooden blocks, and you should see the palaces I construct. Not giving the subject the slightest thought. Awash in pure formfulness. Puzzles and revelations surrounding structure. Days pass. Weeks, (Obviously somewhere in the back of my mind, I am sorting out structural issues regarding my writing as well, but not consciously.) At length, palace-building all the while, I begin to thrum around about structural questions in the piece: what if I led instead with X? And, hey, wait, it’s weird, but that P section rhymes with the T, S could go before P, and we could flip M and N… . Hmmm. And this sort of thing becomes more and more interesting to me. Presently compellingly interesting. (The polarities reverse, and now the empty page is magnetized north and the rest of the world south: The house is burning down? Who cares.)  

Here are some beautiful sets: 

Brio’s 50-piece natural block set. 

 Muji’s New York City in a Bag, at MOMA

• Rural Studio : Famous school out of Auburn University, founded by “Sambo” Mockbee.
• The Design Center (University of Detroit, Mercy): “We focus on the social, cultural, and political aspects of urban community design and architecture.”
• Dirt Studio grew out of “a concern for marginalized communities and an obsession with urban regeneration.”