Imagining Home

Tags:: Architecture; Exhibition

What is a home? There's the obvious answer of a place of residence or--at an even more elementary level--a structure that provides shelter. But "home" carries a bigger meaning than just the building in which we rest our heads; "home" is a retreat, refuge, or personal santuary. A new exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Imagining Home: Selections for the Heinz Architectural Center, showcases more than 125 drawings, models, books, and items from the museum's archives that tell the tales of how "home" as been envisioned over the past two centuries. Here, in our slideshow, we highlight a selection of items on display at the museum through May 30, 2010.

— Miyoko Ohtake

House for "Woman's Home Companion" (1948, mixed media), by architect A. James Speyer and model maker Theodore Conrad. On view through May 30, 2010, at the Carnegie Museum of Art as part of the Imagining Home: Selections from the Heinz Architectural Center exhibition.

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