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Ian Volner

Ian Volner is a writer and critic, and former editor of Edificial.com.

Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling Dreamland: Architectural Experiments since 1970

By Ian Volner

When the Museum of Modern Art staged its debut architecture exhibition in 1932, curators Philip Johnson and Henry Russell Hitchcock were tasked with a tricky little caper: to present modern architecture in such wise as to make it appear not only emphatically novel, but imminently plausible.

Koolhaas’s “Dreamland Project, Coney Island,” 1977. Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art.
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