Lap Chi Kwong and Alison Von Glinow won a Graham Foundation grant for their Smuggling Architecture exhibition.
“The history of the suburban house has been and continues to be codified in a handful of builder’s manuals that offer a huge selection of home plans to pick-and-choose buyers. These builder homes are living artifacts: a domestic typology rigidly embedded within the American landscape. Smuggling Architecture seeks to reclaim the suburban housing stock that has been neglected by modern architecture. The exhibition optimistically smuggles meaning and value into the interiors of generic suburban house plans through architectural orders.”