MoMA Exhibit Turns the Spotlight on Factory-Built Housing: Five Houses Assembled in the Museum of Modern Art Courtyard Will Highlight This Summer's 'Home Delivery' Exhibition

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Despite the remarkable versatility, practicality and functionality of factory-built housing it is still largely unappreciated and misunderstood by the media the financial community, architects and home buyers. But change is going to come. This summer the prestigious Museum of Modern Art wil turn the spotlight on the evolution of factory-built housing undoubtedly resulting in a measure of enlightenment for hordes of tourists, school children and Manhattan's cultural intelligentsia. As part of the exhibition Home Delivery Fabricating the Modern Dwelling, which will be on view from July 20 to October 20, the Museum of Modern Art has chosen five architects to display full-scale, pre-engineered houses in thi outdoor space west of the Museum building. The full exhibition will include a total of 63 projects: the five houses on view next to the Museum and 58 projects on view in the sixth-floor International Council of The Museum of Modern Art Gallery. This exhibition will offer the most thorough examination to date of the historic and contemporary significance of factory-produced architecture from 1833 to today. Founded in 1929 as an educational institution, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the world. Located at 11 West 53 Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues in mid-Manhattan, it is acknowledged to be one of the premier cultural institutions in the U.S.