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Prefab Houses Coming to Midtown Manhattan

New York's Museum of Modern Art is gearing up for a new outdoor show of prefabricated housing. After inviting roughly 400 architects to submit plans for pre-made dwellings, MoMA has picked five to erect in a vacant lot next to the museum on 53rd Street.

While the show doesn't officially open until July 20, the process of turning the empty lot into a mini neighborhood is part of the fun. Foundations will be laid in February and the homes will arrive in late May, popping up in next to no time. Design geeks who can't make it to NYC can follow the progress of the installation online, as the architects blog at MoMA.org.

If you can't wait for spring, the museum has a couple design-focused exhibits indoors. The text-focused collection 50 Years of Helvetica continues until March, showing off the typeface you'd recognize from American Apparel's advertising. Starting February 24, Design and the Elastic Mind promises to explore "the relationship between design and science and the approach to scale," which probably means something to you if you're into design.

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