Allison Arieff was a founding senior editor of Dwell and served as its editor-in-chief from 2002 to 2007. She is currently the editorial director of print for MIT Technology Review. She does not, alas, live in a prefab house, but does have a factory-built 1962 Airstream trailer.

From the Archive: The 82-Foot-High “Tree House” That Turned Heads in Small-Town Arkansas
Marlon Blackwell’s client never forgot the hideout his grandfather built him as a child.
From the Archive: With $120K, a Texas Couple Built Their Rebuttal to the Boring Developer Home
Working with a small budget, architect Richard Wintersole helped the pair devise a 950-square-foot “house-as-loft” that didn’t...
From the Archive: An Architect’s High Stakes Prefab Competition
In Northern California, Michelle Kaufmann pit the construction of her site-built home against a client’s modular structure to...