Thursday, January 23, 2014

Rethink Architecture: What a Waste? Disposable Architecture




The Museum of Modern Art in New York is expanding, which means the American Folk Art Museum will be razed. But AFAM is only 13 years old and a critically acclaimed building. Rising real estate values and MOMA’s new programmatic plan override the feasibility of renovating it. Is this wasteful? What determines value in design, and what’s the measure of architecture’s relevance?

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