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From YouTube: Here/now Artscape: Lustron House Goes to NY
Description
A segment of AVN's monthly magazine show, "Here/now", "Artscape" takes a look at all things cultural around Arlington. This episode follows Arlington County's own Krowne Lustron House, as it takes up residence for the summer in New York's Museum of Modern Art for the exhibit: "Home Delivery."
A
B
C
One
day
my
phone
rang-
and
it
was
one
of
the
curators
from
the
museum
of
modern
art,
and
they
said
we
hear
that
you
all
have
a
restaurant
house
and
they
said
they
were
planning
this
exhibit
for
the
summer
all
about
the
history
of
prefabricated
architecture.
They
wanted
to
find
a
house
that
was
in
near
mint
condition
as
possible.
They
wanted
a
whole
building,
they
wanted
the
westchester
model
and
they
needed
one
that
could
be
easily
transported
to
new
york
for
the
exhibit
and,
as
luck
would
have
it,
we
fit
each
one
of
those
categories.
B
It
is
an
unbelievable
experience
to
have
a
house
from
arlington
at
the
museum
of
modern
art,
probably
one
of
the
10
best
museums
on
the
planet.
Rarely
does
the
county
have
a
piece
of
work
that
can
be
seen
in
such
a
museum
as
much
as
we
would
rather
see
the
house
erected
in
arlington.
Second
best
is
being
shown
to
literally
thousands
of
people.
D
D
Part
of
the
inspiration,
was
revisiting
a
series
of
exhibitions
that
the
museum
did
in
the
middle
of
the
20th
century
with
a
program
called
the
house
in
the
garden
series
in
which
full-scale
exhibition
houses
were
staged
and
the
public
was
able
to
go
through
that.
One
of
the
little-known
facts
about
the
council
garden
series
was
that
a
year
earlier
in
the
summer
of
1948,
the
electron
corporation
was
just
setting
into
production.
B
After
the
war,
the
industry
that
had
reduced
the
flying
forces
and
the
tanks
had
to
be
retooled,
you
no
longer
had
a
need
for
those
types
of
machines,
and
so
the
factories
that
produced
it,
the
employment
that
it
had
to
steal
the
electronics
needed
to
be
used
somewhere
else.
And
the
idea
that
the
restaurant
corporation
had
was
to
utilize
that
steel,
utilize,
those
manufacturing
techniques
and
to
build
housing
to
the
people
coming
home
to
the
returning
veterans.
So
in
1948
they
produced
their
first
houses.
A
D
Because
he
said
it
was
with
low
modernism
and
it
was
materials
that
were
not
suitable
to
be
lived
in.
They
were
more
suitable
for
gas
stations
and
roadside
restaurants,
and
so
there
was
a
real
visceral
reaction
against
celestron
on
behalf
of
lomax
curators
at
the
time,
and
one
could
interpret
his
installation
of
the
broyer
house
a
year
later
as
a
reaction
to
the.
D
Lawyer
test
was
designed
as
a
one-off
and
with
more
of
a
fantasy
object
for
the
masses
to
imagine
what
it
would
be
like
to
live
in
a
sort
of
lush,
suburban
setting
with
a
large
modernist
house,
and
I
got
on
the
phone
with
the
county
preservation
board
one
day
and
said
you
know
we're
looking
for
electrons
installed
at
mama
and
they
were
absolutely
thrilled.
And
this
was
a
few
weeks
before
the
number
of
mushrooms
was
slated
to
be
raised
at
the
quantico
naval
base
right
near
arlington.