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Explore - PreFab
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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 -
Plan of Steel
The Blue Sky prototype home tiptoes gracefully across the desert landscape just north of Joshua Tree National Park. Nestled amid piñon and juniper trees and outcroppings of boulders, the...
written by: Brendan Newnamphotos by: Misha Gravenor03.07.10 -
Dwell Chats with Resolution: 4 Architecture
At a Dwell Meetup event Tuesday, architect Joeseph Tanney of Resolution: 4 Architecture joined editor-in-chief Amanda Dameron in New York City to talk prefab in all its forms. The conversation was...
written by: Emily Nonko12.07.12 -
Shedded Bliss
A prefabricated shed sited on a Finnish island provides a perfect summer getaway.
written by: Jordan Kushinsphotos by: Arsi Ikäheimonen12.19.11 -
On Your Mark, Get Sett
Austin-based modern prefab designer Kimber Reed wants you to space out.
written by: Mitchell Alan Parker08.15.12 -
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 -
Fertile Grounds
Nestled in an apple grove in Sebastopol, California, the Orchard House is a rural idyll. And with the voracious design appetites of a family of gastronomically inclined clients, this concrete...
written by: Sarah Richphotos by: Dave Lauridsen02.26.10 -
Building Blocks
On a double suburban lot in Tokyo, the Office of Ryue Nishizawa built a neighborhood-scaled, flexible-format minimalist steel prefab compound for Yasuo Moriyama—a very private individual with...
written by: Maggie Kinser Hohlephotos by: Dean Kaufman01.17.09 -
Prefab Parlance
From Kynar and Galvalume to SIPs, the terminology associated with prefab construction can be daunting. We asked a handful of architects and designers to help us build a prefab glossary of the top...
written by: Amanda Dameron03.01.10 -
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 -
Prefab Slapstick in One Week
I was in the process of researching a big prefab round-up story this week when I came across what might be the only prefab slapstick comedy in existence. A good three decade's before Jacque...
written by: Aaron Britt07.25.11 -
Swiss Mix
Built for a young family of Spartan-minded clients, architect Felix Oesch's spare, concrete prefab outside of Zurich is a marvel of clean living.
written by: Grant Gibsonphotos by: Hertha Hurnaus01.13.09 -
Roger Kurath on Prefab
We get a nice double dose of architect Roger Kurath, principal of Design*21, this year at Dwell on Design. First check out the Tatami Residence he designed in Marina del Rey on the Westside Home...
written by: Aaron Britt05.22.11 -
Method Lab
Designer Jennifer Siegal’s own house is a modest 1920s Spanish bungalow on the leeward side of busy Lincoln Boulevard in Venice, California, that looks nothing like what she makes at her day job. A...
written by: David A. Greenephotos by: Dave Lauridsen01.15.09 -
Singapore Apartment Renovation
Paul and Elsa Seah, a lawyer and high school teacher living in Singapore, turned a 925-square-foot government housing flat—complete with bomb shelter—into a sleek but cozy home. The...
written by: Margot Dougherty11.28.10 -
Touring Vitra Campus, Part 1
The Vitra Campus in Weil-am-Rhein, Germany, is design-heaven on Earth. Since the 1950s, it has been home to Vitra's furniture production (the company headquarters are located across the border in...
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Miyoko Ohtake09.29.11 -
The Suburbs Strike Back
Swedish prefab specialists Smedshammar + Holmberg are on a mission to rescue their compatriots from boring suburbs—and their deep-seated suspicion of architects.
written by: Jane Szita01.23.09 -
All You Need Is LV
In the most unlikely of places—rural Missouri—Rocio Romero has designed and built a prefab empire.
written by: Donovan Finnphotos by: Dean Kaufman02.19.09 -
LEEDing the Way
One day last April there was great excitement on Highland Avenue, a quiet, hilly street (on which this writer happens to live) of Craftsman bungalows and 1960s apartment buildings in the Ocean Park...
written by: Frances Andertonphotos by: Dave Lauridsen02.01.09 -
A Family-Friendly New York City Apartment
Designer Suchi Reddy crafts a family-friendly New York City apartment.
written by: Diana Buddsphotos by: Ball & Albanese05.09.13
