Opening! Mass Support: Flexibility and Resident Agency in Housing

Around the world, cities are experiencing a profound housing emergency. While we need many new ideas to address the condition, availability, and attainability of shelter. We also need to examine the promise and pitfalls of overlooked knowledge from the recent past. The exhibition Mass Support explores the legacy and contemporary relevance of the Stichting Architecten Research (SAR), a Dutch architectural think tank that proposed a radical new way of thinking about housing, one that fused the efficiency of industrial construction with the flexibility of user customization. The exhibition highlights 10 recent projects that resonate in different ways with the legacy of the SAR’s pathbreaking work—from new models of social housing in Berlin and Barcelona to new applications of prefab construction in Beijing and Brooklyn. Join us for the opening on March 21, and stop by the gallery Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm.