A compact Vietnamese prefab housing prototype features local materials.

A Vancouver architect maxes out a commercial lot to create a multiunit prefab tower that takes smart urban planning as seriously...

Claesson Koivisto Rune introduces its second iteration of the prefab home, combining time-honored Scandinavian touches with the...

Conceptual Speakers for the Home, Imagined by Students in Finland.

Before moving into the Community First! Village outside East Austin, Jesse Brown spent 30 years without a home.

‘Ye’s vision of affordable dome homes for the masses hits a major road block.

A new prefab prototype on a Scottish island demonstrates a smart—and superlocal—approach to building in far-flung locations.

Inside the shell of the Oyster House lies a new shape for affordable housing.

How Superstorm Sandy helped inspire a Brooklyn prototype for more efficient temporary housing after a natural disaster.

A group of young entrepreneurs turn a shipping container into a mobile incubator for innovation.

Lehrer Architects develops a new model for affordable housing in Los Angeles.

This minimal tea brewer has the answer.

This 600-square-foot retreat, designed for an Austin couple, is located deep within a 30,000-acre ranch in West Texas.

A Seattle engineer builds an energy-efficient house with an assist from a prototype smart-home system.

The limited-edition Polydrops trailer is a lightweight, aluminum pod shaped like a geometric teardrop.

True to the case study prototype, the minimalist interior makes the most of the home’s boxy frame.

The barren beauty of a desert landscape can be a source of inspiration for off-the-grid prefab living.

Explore Ecospace Studio's modular buildings that serve a variety of valuable purposes.

You might want to sit down for this: Danish company PP Møbler is set to begin production on a rare prototype designed by Hans...

Building prototypes by hand helped Antonio Monserrat explore form and function in the making of his imaginative pad in...

The 210-square-foot unit has a mezzanine sleeping area with a bathroom and storage underneath, and a living space that turns into...

Designed in 1969 with the Bauhaus movement as inspiration, the Zoersel House was a prototype meant to be duplicated across the...

The Blue Sky prototype home tiptoes gracefully across the desert landscape just north of Joshua Tree National Park.

Before finding its permanent new home in the California desert, the Aluminaire House faced multiple relocations—even a brush with...

Architect Jiri Lev’s home is a prototype for forward-looking architecture that could make a positive societal impact in Australia.

This mesmerizing micro home offers an incredible experience at an affordable price in Greece.

With greenery dwindling in urban areas, an architecture firm in Ho Chi Minh City designs a home to bring nature back to the...

Nowadays, innovators in the world of prefab and kit home design have continued to push the boundaries on what they can do—their...

Starting in 1974, architect Eduardo Longo built the radically organic Casa Bola as a prototype for modular city apartments.

With a sleek prototype in Emeryville, California, under its belt, Simpatico Homes sets out to redefine prefab's cost –and...

With this elegant steel prototype, Marmol Radziner and Associates launch a new prefab venture with the goal of bringing their...

During the London Design Festival, Natalia Geci presents a “nomadic” furniture collection that mitigates the hassle of moving.

A prefabricated shed sited on a Finnish island provides a perfect summer getaway.

At the University of Texas at Austin, vertical gardening gets an architectural update.

A tiny house designed to withstand the red planet's harsh climate is being built on the banks of the Hudson River—and Indiegogo...

Along with being an extremely resilient material that's flame-retardant and self-extinguishing, felt can easily be manipulated...