The first, most elemental shelters—a house of trees, a modified cave—transformed nature into architecture. In modern times, it is more often architecture that transforms landscape. In-Situ: Architecture and Landscape presents a selection of projects from MoMA’s collection that explore the relationship between the built environment and its surroundings throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The architects represented, including Erik Gunnar Asplund, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Aldo Rossi, and Toyo Ito, have all taken cues from their settings, gaining specificity and character from the unique conditions of their building sites. Examples of parks, homes, civic projects, and cemeteries in urban and rural locales illustrate the variety of ways in which architects and designers engage with a diversity of landscapes.

April 8, 2009–September 14, 2009

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