Tania Ketenjian speaks with San Francisco MoMA's Henry Urbach, curator of Architecture and Design, about his exhibit Sensate: Bodies and Design. The show features artists, designers, and architects, working in a variety of mediums. Highlights include a slowly inflating vinyl house, a giant wall of bulbous shapes, and photographs of distorted body parts. The exhibit explores the notion of buildings as bodies, an idea that goes back to the Roman architect Vitruvius. Urbach believes that architecture is a concrete representation of the body: the way it stands, the way it grounds itself, and way it is often described from the outside.

Henry Urbach was appointed curator of San Franciso Moma's Architecture and Design in 2006. Urbach came to SFMOMA from New York, where he owned and directed Henry Urbach Architecture, a gallery of contemporary art and architecture that he founded in 1997 (30 minutes).