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Articles

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  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.

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  Creative Commons

  Craving not just a home but a proper piece of architecture, a handful of design- and business-savvy Dutch families banded together, hired an architect, and set about forming the community that…

Products

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  Method Custom Prefab

  Using innovative and sustainable techniques and materials, Method can design and build custom prefab solutions for homeowners, architects, developers and other prefab home companies. If you have a…

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  Architecture Now! Houses

  The latest in Taschen’s ever-growing Architecture Now! series (does Philip Jodidio ever sleep?), this volume takes us on a fantastic visual voyage around the world to some of the most…

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  Balance S

  The Balance S is a self-contained one module structure that can serve as a guest house, cottage, studio, office or small home. Smart, efficient and well designed, the series of self-contained…

Dwell Collections

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  Mapping Prefab

  In just under ten years, dozens of prefab projects from all over the world have graced the pages of Dwell. We sifted through our archives to find some of our best-loved pieces, revisiting stories…

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  Building Green in Harlem

Videos

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  Building Green in Harlem: A Green Brownstone?

  In this video series, Dwell follows a New York couple with a passion for building green through the challenges—and triumphs—of renovation, from finding the design-build team to…

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  Ecofabulous and Reclaimed Space at Dwell on Design 2009

  Reclaimed Space, an Austin–based company that manufactures portable, sustainable living spaces, and Ecofabulous.com collaborate on the design for a 400-square-foot structure set up on the floor of…

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  Design Leader: Michelle Kaufmann

  As part of our Design Leaders video series, prefab specialist Michelle Kaufmann shares her philosophy on sustainable modular construction.

Tips

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  Think Smaller. Think Efficient.

  Don’t target a prefab project and forget to adapt your wish list to fit the capabilities of the task at hand. A prefabricated house or commercial project has certain limitations, one of which…

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  Prefab is Not Necessarily Less Expensive

  It certainly can be, but as with any project it depends on the architect, the fabricator, and how everything is organized in anticipation of installation at your site. Your architect needs to be…

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  The More Complete, the More Prefab

  There are quite a few companies out there that are marketing “prefab” but not all of them are designing and producing entirely finished products. Many projects we have seen appear to be…

Events

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  Architecture and Vision

  Design studio Architecture and Vision uses space-age technologies and small-space limitations to create projects critical of our society's habits of overproduction and overconsumption. The…

• What Is Green Architecture? with Werner Sobek

  The Goethe-Institut New York presents What Is Green Architecture?, a series of conversations, lectures, and events exploring the cutting-edge developments in the field and their impact on…

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  Snøhetta: architecture

  The exhibition offers insights into the design and construction of the firm’s most important works, including the celebrated Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, the recently…