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NEELON CRAWFORD, REUSE, RENEW, RECYCLE:

FILMMAKER RECENT ARCHITECTURE

The Museum of Modern Art
FROM CHINA
The Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art announces Reuse, Renew,
Recycle: Recent Architecture from China, an exhibition
highlighting a new generation of Chinese architects and their
commitment to social and environmental sustainability. On
view from September 18, 2021, through July 4, 2022, in the
street-level galleries, the exhibition will present eight projects
that speak to a multiplicity of architectural methodologies,
ranging from the adaptive reuse of former industrial buildings,
the recycling of building materials, and the reinterpretation
of ancient construction techniques, to the economic
rejuvenation of rural villages or entire regions through non-
Installation view of Neelon Crawford, Filmmaker, July 24, 2021–Spring 2022 at
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Digital Image © 2021 The Museum of invasive architectural insertions. Anchoring the exhibition will
Modern Art, New York. Photo by Jonathan Muzikar be projects by Pritzker Prize–winning Amateur Architecture
Studio (Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu), Archi-Union Architects
The Museum of Modern Art presents Neelon Crawford,
(Philip F. Yuan), Atelier Deshaus (Liu Yichun and Chen Yifeng),
Filmmaker, an exhibition and Virtual Cinema film series
DnA_Design and Architecture (Xu Tiantian), Studio Zhu Pei
introducing the multimedia artist Neelon Crawford (American,
(Zhu Pei), Vector Architects (Dong Gong), and Aga Khan Award
born 1946) to contemporary audiences from July 24, 2021
laureate ZAO/standardarchitecture (Zhang Ke). Developed
through Spring, 2022. Crawford was a member of the New York,
following a four-year research initiative, which has included
San Francisco and Ohio independent filmmaking scenes from
extensive conversations with the architects and numerous site
the late 1960s through the early 1980s. Describing his work
visits to all the projects presented, the exhibition will include
from this period as “experiments in the geometry of abstraction
models, drawings, photographs, videos, and architectural
made possible by the movie camera,” Crawford’s 16-millimeter
mock-ups drawn from a recent acquisition of some 160 works
films reflected his interests in light, movement and landscape
of Chinese contemporary architecture.
as well as dance, and early computer graphics. Installed in
the Titus galleries as a timely meditation on climate crisis and
sustainability, the nine newly-restored films on view include KMK DnA_Design and Architecture, Bamboo Theater, HengKeng Village, Songyang,
China, 2015. Photograph by Wang Ziling (MoMA 264.2020.3)
Cane (1976), La Selva (1974), Laredo Sugar Mill (1976), Lago Agrio
Gas Burn (1977), Banana Leaves (1977), Ship Side Steel Plate
Lights (1974), Light Pleasures (1970), Passing (1974),and Paths
of Fire II (1976). Neelon Crawford, Filmmaker is organized by
Ron Magliozzi,Curator, and Brittany Shaw, Curatorial Assistant,
Department of Film.

Installation view of Neelon Crawford, Filmmaker, July 24, 2021–Spring 2022 at
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Digital Image © 2021 The Museum of
Modern Art, New York. Photo by Jonathan Muzikar

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