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Explore - PreFab
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NYC Post-Disaster Housing Request
In 2007, New York City's Office of Emergency Management launched an international housing design competition, What if NYC?, calling for solutions that would address how to keep residents safe and...
written by: Tiffany Chu07.21.09 -
Prefab Escapism: Carré d'Etoiles
While camping up in Oregon over the fourth of July weekend, I realized when lying on my back in my tent that I wasn't really fulfilling my fervent outdoorsy wish to 'sleep beneath the stars,'...
written by: Tiffany Chu07.14.09 -
Exhibition Snapshot: Dwell Outdoor
From modern prefab sheds to luxury tent lodges, organic planters to living walls, Dwell Outdoor is one of the most anticipated exhibitions at this year's Dwell on Design.
written by: Tiffany Chu06.27.09 -
Upwardly Mobile Homes
When it comes to real estate, the trailer park gets a bad rap. But some designers think that this forsaken corner of the market is worthy of reevaluation—and even resuscitation.
written by: Rick Polito05.13.09 -
On a Rock in a Hard Place
In an unlikely mountaintop locale, Anderson Anderson Architecture crafted a home out of a complex composition of off-the-shelf components, paving new paths for the prefabricated construction industry.
written by: Andrew Wagnerphotos by: John Clark05.01.09 -
How to Play FlatPak
Intelligent, appealing, and affordable, Charlie Lazor’s user-friendly FlatPak just might be the project that revolutionizes the prefab industry.
written by: Allison Arieffphotos by: Chad Holder05.01.09 -
Tait Modern
When building a second home, most people don’t consider traveling farther than upstate. But the Taits built theirs 30 hours away on the coast of Tasmania.
written by: Catherine Franklinphotos by: Peter Hyatt04.30.09 -
Michelle Kaufmann Book Reading
These days, it's a common saying that recessions breed creativity. To Michelle Kaufmann, this means creating solutions for affordable, green living. Kaufmann found her calling after she and her...
written by: Ilana Diamond04.27.09 -
John Quale
John Quale discovered his calling early. While his buddies were reading Brewers box scores, nine-year-old Quale was analyzing house-of-the-week floor plans in the Milwaukee Sentinel.
written by: Arnie Cooper04.20.09 -
101 Prefab
Everything you wanted to know about prefab but were afraid to ask! We've tapped the brain behind popular web resource FabPreFab to explain the birds and bees of manufactured housing.
written by: Michael Sylvester04.16.09 -
Ma-dular Building in Austin
The Music and Technology festivals that make up South by Southwest may have come and gone but that doesn't mean that innovation can't still be found in Austin, Texas. Austin based firm KRDB have...
04.06.09 -
OfficePOD
Between rising rates of independent and freelance careers and the many changes to corporate work policies that have accompanied the downturn, many people are finding themselves in need of a good...
written by: Sarah Rich03.25.09 -
Container Cinema
As part of the cultural countdown to the winter Olympics in Vancouver 2010, media art group Springboard—a trio composed of architect Robert Duke, designers Keith Doyle and Iain Sinclair, and...
written by: Ilana Diamond03.23.09 -
How to Get the New Sustain MiniHome
Ever wondered what it would be like to own a compact, green, mobile, prefab home? You will soon have a chance to find out.
written by: Sarah Rich03.18.09 -
Marmol Radziner Prefab
Amid the industrial expanse of Vernon, California, Marmol Radziner Prefab’s factory-built homes are pieced together in a process akin to the assembly lines made famous by Henry Ford.
written by: Jessica Hundley03.16.09 -
Outback Staked House
A few years ago, while working with the indigenous communities of remote Arnhem Land, in Australia’s Northern Territory, architect Sue Harper became passionate about prefab.
written by: Catherine Franklinphotos by: Patrick Bingham Hall03.01.09 -
iT House, Joshua Tree
The iT House brings together raw industrial aesthetics with the tactics of green design to forge a new home in the sunbaked wilds of California’s east.
written by: Frances Andertonphotos by: Gregg Segal02.28.09 -
Out Back
From city slickers to country bumpkins, homeowners have always longed for a special place from which to escape the toils of day-to-day life.
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Amanda Friedman02.27.09 -
Future Building
Resembling in form and function ancestors such as Jean Prouvé’s prefab Tropical House, Architect Fred Friedmeyer’s prefab structures harmonize, as much as possible, with Ethiopia...
written by: Donovan Finn02.26.09 -
Mother's Nature
The Watershed is an off-the-grid writer’s retreat that architect Erin Moore designed for her mother, nature writer Kathleen Dean Moore.
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: Gary Tarleton02.26.09
