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Explore - PreFab
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Building the Pentimento House
David Barragan and Jose Maria Saez call their Pentimento House "an architecture to be naked to connect with its surroundings." Built using a new, Lego-like modular prefab system the two architects...
written by: Diana Budds11.16.12 -
Mini Apartments and Next-Wave Prefab, Part 3
This blog series profiles a new prefab development in San Francisco's SOMA neighborhood—a LEED Platinum-targeted building containing 23 "micro-studios." Built in a California factory in a...
written by: Jaime Gillin10.24.12 -
Dwell Party Highlights: Celebrating Prefab Design at SXSW Eco
What better place for Dwell to host our SXSW Eco party than a prefab pop up at the design complex of the woman who founded the Austin Modern Home Tour? Go behind the scenes in our story and...
written by: Addie Broyles10.10.12 -
Mini Apartments and Next-Wave Prefab, Part 2
This seven-part blog series profiles a new prefab development in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood—a LEED Platinum-targeted building containing 23 "micro-studios". Built in a...
written by: Jaime Gillin10.10.12 -
Mini Apartments and Next-Wave Prefab, Part 1
This seven-part blog series profiles a new prefab development in San Francisco's SOMA neighborhood—a LEED Platinum-targeted building containing 23 "micro-studios". Built in a...
written by: Jaime Gillin10.03.12 -
Refinishing Alvar Aalto's Finnish Pavilion
Alvar Aalto’s Finnish Pavilion for the Venice Biennale, originally designed as a temporary demountable structure, was built in 1956 and stayed solidly in a place for nearly 56 years until...
written by: Linda Taalmanphotos by: Patricia Parinejad09.12.12 -
On Your Mark, Get Sett
Austin-based modern prefab designer Kimber Reed wants you to space out.
written by: Mitchell Alan Parker08.15.12 -
The Best of Prefab: 7 Homes We Love
The locations may be far flung—from rural Missouri to Eglisau, Switzerland—the residents might be architects, families, or weekend warriors, but the constant is prefabrication in our...
written by: Diana Budds08.05.12 -
Whitney Sander on Green Building
I first met architect Whitney Sander of Sander Architects in Los Angeles at Dwell on Design last year. He showed me his work, we talked some prefab (one of his firm's specialties) and when it...
written by: Aaron Britt06.13.12 -
Salone 2012: Charlotte Perriand's Mountain Prefab
For the first time ever, Cassina has constructed a prefab mountain dwelling conceived by Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret from the drawings the pair created in 1938.
written by: Amanda Dameron04.16.12 -
Green & Affordable Prefab Home Debuts in Palm Springs
Tours of John Lautner’s Elrod House or the Annenberg’s newly re-opened Sunnylands may leave us wondering if we could ever afford a modernist luxury for ourselves, but thankfully...
written by: Carren Jaophotos by: Izumi Tanaka02.17.12 -
Going Deutsch
In a German town known more for its medieval castle than its modern architecture, the JustK Haus is a prefab home fit for a family of six.
written by: Jane Szita01.11.12 -
Office Shed in Miniature
In preparation for our upcoming outdoor issue, we've been examining all manners of outbuildings: prefab sheds, tree houses, architectural follies, even chicken coops. The recently introduced Tetra...
written by: Kelsey Keith01.06.12 -
Whitney Sander on Green Building
I first met architect Whitney Sander of Sander Architects in Los Angeles at Dwell on Design this year. He showed me his work, we talked some prefab (one of his firm's specialties) and when it...
written by: Aaron Britt12.24.11 -
Shedded Bliss
A prefabricated shed sited on a Finnish island provides a perfect summer getaway.
written by: Jordan Kushinsphotos by: Arsi Ikäheimonen12.19.11 -
A Sweetheart Deal
Decades after they met as teenagers on a Montauk beach, Manhattanites Victoria and Greg Pryor returned to Long Island to build a sustainable second home together.
written by: William Lambphotos by: Ty Cole12.14.11 -
Sert du Soleil
The revamp of Clover—a new fast-food joint in Harvard Square—complements the original interior and hidden skylight of the Josep Lluís Sert–designed building from 1966.
written by: Aaron Britt12.10.11 -
This Fold House
It took a mere six months—three in the factory and three on-site—for this prefab to come to fruition on the shore of Sweden’s Müsko Island.
written by: Jordan Kushins12.04.11 -
QuaDror in Action
In this month's issue, Prefab Perfected, we report on QuaDror, a structural joint system devised by designer Dror Benshetrit that Contributing Editor Marc Kristal calls a "diabolically brain...
written by: Aaron Britt11.30.11 -
Top Dror
Industrial designer Dror Benshetrit’s new building system, QuaDror, can be applied to make just about anything from architecture to table bases.
written by: Marc Kristal11.29.11
