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Chicago industrialist Charles Paepcke founded the Aspen Institute in 1946 and commissioned Bauhaus-trained artistic polymath Herbert Bayer to design the campus, which today includes the Aspen Meadows Resort and the Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies. Photo courtesy Aspen Meadows Resort.

Method Homes—also based in Seattle—builds prefab homes with unlimited customization. They work with local architects as well as their own to design sustainable prefabricated homes that can be built to obtain LEED, ENERGY STAR, Living Building Challenge, Passive House, and other environmental certification standards. They build off-site in a custom facility, and deliver throughout most of the United States, and even certain areas in Canada.

The compact kitchen is equipped with a Smeg fridge and oven, a Gorenje induction hob set within a white Corian worktop, and two Fisher & Paykel dishwashers nestled underneath.

The custom Bulthaup kitchen is outfitted with Gaggenau appliances and Caesarstone countertops.

How to Build an Affordable America: There are as many solutions to the country’s housing crisis as there are causes. We need them all.