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Explore - PreFab
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Contained
In a quest to create some private space in a soaring loft, two San Franciscans turned to shipping containers as a design solution. View the final transformation, which includes a teak-and-copper...
11.07.11 -
Carlos Bunga
Trained as a painter, Barcelona-based Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga has expanded his practice to encompass multiple mediums and dimensions, including performance, sculpture, and video. In his...
08.21.11 -
Exposure: Matt Keegan, Katie Paterson, Heather Rasmussen
Matt Keegan’s site-specific installation grew out of the artist’s longstanding fascination with cities. Focusing on Chicago and New York, Keegan creates a meandering visual...
08.21.11 -
Prefab Education Workshop
Join Ryan E. Smith, professor of architectural technology and author of Prefab Architecture, in the Prefab Education workshop on January 13th, 2012. Learn about the history of industrialized...
11.10.11 -
QuaDror Unveiled at Design Indaba
In its simplest version, QuaDror looks like a child's wooden puzzle. Dror Benshetrit aligns four L-shaped blocks, and effortlessly shifts them from a few flat planes into an elegant structure. It...
written by: Rebecca L. Weber02.28.11 -
Herman Miller's POV Series
Our friends at Herman Miller just released a series of online videos celebrating the work of five California architects. Each architect (or team, in the case of Marmol Radziner) speaks on creative...
written by: Diana Budds05.15.11 -
Frank Vafaee of Proto Homes
In 2008, Frank Vafaee, Manish Desai, and Andre Farhang founded Proto Homes. The Los Angeles-based company designs, builds, and sells homes as products. "When you buy a phone or a car, you...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake05.20.11 -
Mark Rylant of Method Homes
In 2007, builders and developers Mark Rylant and Brian Abramson launched Method Homes, a prefabricated building company with a focus on modern homes. Since then, the Seattle-based business has...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake06.09.11 -
Sydney's Surprising Opera House
The Sydney Opera House is more amazing—and surprising—in person than any photo could convey. Earlier this month, I headed to the Southern Hemisphere for a vacation in Sydney and Cairns,...
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Miyoko Ohtake07.14.11 -
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 -
A Simple Plan
A Marmol Radziner–designed prefab house, trucked onto a remote Northern California site, takes the pain out of the construction process.
written by: Jaime Gillinphotos by: Dwight Eschliman11.23.11 -
Building a Prefab House
A highlight of reporting "A Simple Plan," my story about the Marmol Radziner-designed prefab in Ukiah, California (in our December/January 2012 issue, and online here) was sitting down...
written by: Jaime Gillin11.24.11 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Superior Logic
Prefab construction simplified the building process of this northern Wisconsin summer home, where all materials required ferrying across Lake Superior.
written by: Mason Riddlephotos by: George Heinrich11.28.11 -
Blu's Unfolding Prefab
In our December/January issue, Prefab Perfected, we offer a shopper's guide to the best of American prefabricated architecture. We take you through over a dozen firms that matter right now, one of...
written by: Aaron Britt11.23.11 -
Time-Lapse Prefab
I interviewed Peter Anderson of Anderson Anderson Architecture for our "American Prefab: A Shopper's Guide" story in the December/January issue, and found the firm's backstory and...
written by: Jaime Gillin11.22.11
