To celebrate, MOCA interviewed 36 of the featured architects about their practices.
"Breathing Room," shows how to personalize a home, and "World by Design," features artists, architects and designers.
Mr. Riley featured the architects' Mobius House outside Utrecht in the Modern's "Un-Private House" show in 1999.
The Royal Mint is offering a 5-pound coin featuring the architects of Napoleon's downfall, the Duke of Wellington and Prussia's Marshal Bluecher.
The building features the architect's angled geometry and uses metallics and coated glass, similar to the architecture across its plaza in Mr. Libeskind's Frederic C. Hamilton Building, an expansion of the Denver Art Museum.
Fountains along courtyard walkways provide evaporative cooling to reduce the need for air-conditioning, and each classroom gets light and air from two sides, a feature that architects noted is important in a place where power failures are common.
The discussion, which will feature the architects Richard Meier, Annabelle Selldorf and Rafael Viñoly, is part of the opening-night festivities on June 23 for an exhibition at the Parrish Art Museum, in Southampton, based on Dr. Diamonstein-Spielvogel's 2005 book "The Landmarks of New York: An Illustrated Record of the City's Historic Buildings".
The game in which he features, Prison Architect, has become quietly massive; it's still to be officially launched, but since September 2012 it has sold more than a million copies of the alpha version at $30 each, lavishly funding its development and netting Introversion Software, a British software house based in Walton-on-Thames, a small fortune.
The Garden city concept as originated in Ebenezer Howard's milestone publication, "Garden Cities of Tomorrow," as well as the design features that architect-planners Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker brought to the British new towns of Letchworth (1903) and Welwin (1919) provided the conceptual framework for later suburban development (Ward 1993; Greed 1993; Sies and Silver 1996).
The Mayan Revival-inspired house, set on about a quarter of an acre, features the architect's reinforced concrete-block construction.
