Pretty Little Pictures

Course# MET166 Expires: August 2014 This course is AIA/CES registered for 1LU The new Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) show, Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream , explores the last half decade housing slump and recession. Five teams of up and coming architects designed proposals for five abandoned or stalled suburban subdivisions across the country. Karrie […]

Course# MET166
Expires: August 2014
This course is AIA/CES registered for 1LU

The new Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) show, Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream , explores the last half decade housing slump and recession. Five teams of up and coming architects designed proposals for five abandoned or stalled suburban subdivisions across the country. Karrie Jacobs reviews and investigates unique housing regulations proposed in the exhibition.

Read the article with the following learning objectives in mind. Then complete the participant exercise online.

Learning Objectives:

– Understand how the MoMA exhibit could expand the welfare of residential architectural practice by influencing the design of the structures, regulations, ethics, and methods behind the residential real estate market.
– Learn how portable mortgages increase access to housing opportunities through the restructuring of civic laws.
– Find out how REIT regulations can turn local property into global assets.
– Understand how the recent American foreclosure crisis affects urban planning processes through resulting zoning and regulatory reconfigurations.

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