Gregory Ain’s exhibition house designed for MoMA's garden in the 1950s still keeps its mystery with a lack of documentation. The house is now the subject of a new exhibition called "This Future Has a Past" at the Center for Architecture in Greenwich Village. 

The exhibition opened to the public on July 25 and will be on view until September 25, 2017 - which presents a multimedia installation dedicated to the life of Gregory Ain, FAIA (1908–1988), and his 1950 Exhibition House for the MoMA garden, the progressive architect’s last significant building. This Future Has a Past retraces the mysterious fate of the house and unearths an extraordinary moment in Ain’s personal history.

This exhibition was originally organized for an exhibition in the 15th International Venice Biennale of Architecture.

Who Was Gregory Ain? will also be held on September 7 as part of "This Future Has a Past" program at the Center for Architecture, New York. 

Phillip R. Denny, a doctoral candidate in architecture history and theory at Harvard, writes the mysterious story of Ain's exhibition house - by exploring how was it designed?  Who commissioned to design the house?.....Continue Reading

Top image: Ain’s exhibition house on view in MoMA’s sculpture garden in 1950. Image © Ezra Stoller/Esto

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