"it would seem to me that if a modern museum's show about architecture is focused almost entirely on free-standing private dwelling units, regardless of all the sexy bits about computer design, pre- or modularly-fabricated structures, and revolutionary ecological breakthroughs, it is at least half-dead in the water already and unlikely to be remembered as a landmark achievement by any future generation..."

this statement reminds me of another:
"you have to crawl before you can walk"

you can just start at the beginning with a final goal in mind and bang, there it is. if these were meant to be the new way of life they wouldnt be featured in a museum, you would see them in you neighborhood.

Wagner is dead on.

This show is provocative in a way it isn't meant to
in the sense that it is displaying luxury micro homes that don't either fit the needs or possibilities of the hundreds of thousands of people that every week move into shantytowns across the globe or even the economical and cultural elite it displays itself to.

The target group seem to be the architects themselves, always eager to be teased by another formal and constructive exercise. But this isn't the time for the architectural follies it is time for solving problems using architecture without vanity but as a fundamental a service to humanity like engineering and agriculture.

The curators of the exhibition are either complacent and\or oblivious to the blaring warnings about the problems of our built environment and find themselves dazzled by irrelevance and hoping the world follows into this kind of built escapism.
It completely disregards the transformative, provocative and pedagogical function of art in general...

Classy. Criticize it for what it isn't and not solving all of the world's problems at once.

It'll be interesting to see how this compare to the modernist house show they had about fifty years ago in the garden.

Some people will always live in single family detached houses. Those should be as good as they can be. Other housing types should get their day in the sun, too, and maybe more exposure and attention when they deserve it. Maybe that question should be put to MoMa's director.