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Another Chance for Housing: Low-Rise Alternatives; Brownsville, Brooklyn, Fox Hills, Staten Island : [Catalogue Of] an Exhibitio Another chance for housing: low-rise alternatives; Brownsville, Brooklyn, Fox Hills, Staten Island : [Catalogue of] an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, June 12-August 19, 1973 Designed by the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies for the New York State Urban Development Corporation Author Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Date 1973 Publisher [publisher not identified] Exhibition URL www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/2538 The Museum of Modern Art's exhibition history—from our founding in 1929 to the present—is available online. It includes exhibition catalogues, primary documents, installation views, and an index of participating artists. MoMA © 2017 The Museum of Modern Art 1 The Museum of Modern Art AnotherChance for Housing: Low-Rise Alternatives New York Institutefor Architecture Brownsville,Brooklyn and Urban Studies Fox Hills, Staten Island New York State Urban DevelopmentCorporation i i i i i i i * Museum of Modern Art Another Chancefor Housing: Low-Rise Alternatives An exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art Brownsville, Brooklyn June 12-August 19, 1973 Fox Hills, Staten Island Designed by The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies for The New York State Urban Development Corporation The Museum of Modern Art New York LIBRARY Mnseuti of Modern Art fiRChchive -4- =>?/ /97S Trustees of the The Institute for Architecture Museum of Modern Art /037 and Urban Studies William S. Paley, Chairman Fellows Marcus Garvey Urban Renewal Area, Gardner Cowles, Vice Chairman Stanford Anderson Henry Allen Moe, Vice Chairman Brownsville, New York City (Urban' Peter D. Eisenman, Director Application ) David Rockefeller, Vice Chairman William Ellis Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, President Kenneth Frampton J. Frederick Byers III, Vice President Mario Gandelsonas Mrs. Bliss Parkinson, Vice President Peter Wolf, Chairman James Thrall Soby, Vice President Robert O. Anderson Visiting Fellows Mrs. Douglas Auchincloss Diana Agrest Walter Bareiss Arthur Baker Robert R. Barker Vincent Moore Alfred H. Barr, Jr.* Ralph Warburton Mrs. Armand P. Bartos William A. M. Burden Research Associates Ivan Chermayeff Duarte Cabral de Mello Dr. Mamie Phipps Clark Suzanne Frank Mrs. C. Douglas Dillon William H. Donaldson Trustees Mrs. Edsel B. Ford* Arthur Drexler, Chairman Gianluigi Gabetti Mrs. Douglas Auchincloss George Heard Hamilton Armand Bartos Wallace K. Harrison* George A. Dudley Mrs. Walter Hochschild* John D. Entenza James W. Husted* Peter D. Eisenman Philip Johnson Burnham Kelly Mrs. Frank Y. Larkin Frank Stanton Gustave L. Levy Richard Meier John L. Loeb Peter Wolf Ranald H. Macdonald* Mrs. G. Macculloch Miller* Staff Fox Hills, Staten Island, New York J. Irwin Miller Louise Joseph (Suburban Application) Samuel I. Newhouse, Jr. Judith Hill Richard E. Oldenburg Mrs. Charles S. Payson* Gifford Phillips Nelson A. Rockefeller Mrs. Wolfgang Schoenborn Mrs. Bertram Smith Mrs. Alfred R. Stern Mrs. Donald B. Straus Walter N. Thayer Edward M. M. Warburg* Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. Monroe Wheeler John Hay Whitney * Honorary Trustee for Life ©1973 The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53 Street New York, N.Y. 10019 All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 73-78278 ISBN 0-87070-431-1 Photo: George Cserna Introduction As its name might suggest, the Museum of pleased to present to the public what it Modern Art, through its Department of believes is a constructive step toward a Architecture and Design, is concerned significant change in housing policy. with the art of architecture. It recognizes — indeed it insists — that architecture The evolution of housing concepts is itself even more than the other arts is bound up a subject of considerable complexity. In with ethics, social justice, technology, order to clarify the nature of these con politics, and finance, along with a lofty cepts and their present status, a most desire to improve the human condition. informative and useful review of their Pending such improvement, however, we history has been provided by Kenneth must continue to exist in the realm of Frampton, a Fellow of the Institute and contingencies, and the particular contin co-designer of two of the studies shown gency with which we are here concerned in the exhibition and in this catalog. A is: how should the architect's art be used better understanding of the intentions to devise humane housing? behind unsatisfactory ideas about hous ing may yet help us to avoid further pitfalls, It must immediately be acknowledged that and in this regard it is important to any conceivable answer depends on prior emphasize that the term "low rise alterna assumptions about the meaning of words: tives" means just that: low rise is not art, housing, and humane. But art and herewith presented as a new panacea housing, like the rest of life, do go on. destined to sweep away all housing more With or without adequate definitions, than four stories high. It is simply an where action is required it behooves us to alternative — presumably one of many — offer some answers, or at least some and its full utilization remains to be ex helpful suggestions. plored. Neither is it new; it has been tried, abandoned, and tried again, now it may Toward this end the Museum's Depart finally be given the sustained development ment of Architecture and Design assisted it deserves. in founding the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. The Institute is an The prototype and its two applications at independent agency; the Department of sites in Brooklyn and Staten Island, all Architecture and Design may from time to shown here, begin with the assumption time collaborate with it in the development that low rise housing lends itself particu of specific proposals, and in the effort to larly well to reinforcing the nature and use have them implemented where such initia of the street. It is the confusion between tive would seem to promise a perceptible public and private that has led to the improvement in the built environment. breakdown of both in so much recent building, and a reassertion of the separate Among the most important of the problems and equally necessary roles of public and that both the Institute and the Museum private space applies to the design of high can identify is that of housing. Public rise as well as low rise housing. policy, determined as much by architects and planners as by other spokesmen of On behalf of the Museum I wish to thank the community (although architects and the many people in the Institute for Archi planners might perhaps wish to deny this) tecture and Urban Studies and the Urban has not lived up to expectations. Per Development Corporation who have par formance varies, and it is of the greatest ticipated in preparing these projects. It is importance that public agencies remain the Museum's hope that this presentation open to changing ideas. New York State of their work will promote informed public is fortunate in that its Urban Development discussion. Corporation, under the leadership of Edward J. Logue, is an agency that does remain open to new ideas and in fact seeks to test them. In its collaboration with Arthur Drexler the Urban Development Corporation the Director, Department of Institute has benefitted from their immense Architecture and Design practical experience, and the Museum is Museum of Modern Art The family housing now being built in the experience and our concern for the must afford not only a sense of individual older cities of the United States seems identification of the family with its housing, identity but also a sense of community. to be falling behind suburban housing and with an awareness of trends in A second version of the low rise prototype from the point of view of affording some Western Europe, we were pleased to have is under study for a site on Staten Island. sense of identification between the family the opportunity of entering into partnership Here it is being adapted to preserve and and its dwelling. The cost of land and the with the Institute for Architecture and enhance the amenities of suburban life difficulties of relocation have led to an Urban Studies (IAUS) in a joint attempt to before they are swept away by haphazard ever greater emphasis on high rise provide a low rise alternative. After many building. buildings as the standard urban housing meetings between the Institute and solution for families of low and moderate ourselves over a period of several months, The Urban Development Corporation income. it became clear that there was a consensus has benefited greatly from the fresh to focus on what we have been calling perspective of the Institute, and I think These high rise "projects", as they are Low Rise High Density housing. In this we it fair to say they, in turn have benefited usually called, house a great many had to come to understand just how high from our experience with the very real families on a relatively small amount of was low rise and just how low was high world in which we must operate. Both of land, and they do provide decent living density. us have had to adjust our ideas of what space in quantities which would be we would like to what we could in fact difficult to achieve at lower densities. We had to focus particularly on what is seek to achieve. I am personally confident However, their design and landscaping called the "bedroom count". In the United that the end result will be widely popular often remain quite sterile. The scale of States, density is usually expressed in with the families who will live there. such projects seems frequently to be way terms of dwelling units per acre, whereas beyond any human dimension, and in Europe density is expressed in terms We hope thatthe alternative here proposed families, particularly young children, miss of people per acre.
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