Q&A With David Lai of Hello Design It goes without saying that David Lai, Principal and Creative Director of Hello Design, has had a lot of experience creating...
Kevin Roche on How He Got His Start—Nodding Off in an Interview With Eero Saarinen The Pritzker Prize–winning architect reflects on his achievements and his mentor.
Prefab Builder Blu Homes to Disrupt the Construction Industry Prefab builder Blu Homes, helmed by CEO Bill Haney, aims to disrupt the construction industry supply chain by interacting...
Creatives of the Bay Area Series: Charles de Lisle We’re excited to announce that we’ll be showcasing several homes of creative individuals we admire in the Bay Area—and we’re...
Prefab, Proven In January 2003, we issued a challenge to 16 architects: Design a modern prefab home for $200,000.
Prefab for Humanity In inner-city Baltimore, Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake paves a path to affordable prefab.
Photographer Q&A: Matthew Williams From Jakarta to Brazil, Brooklyn based photographer Matthew Williams has traveled the globe for Dwell.
When Prefab Is Painless An easy construction process reduces any drama for a couple in California.
An Australian Builder’s Cramped Family Cottage Gets an Industrial-Inspired Extension In Melbourne’s Newport suburb, OOF! Architecture leads a skillful remodel packed with playful surprises like exposed trusses, a...
Q&A with Japanese Architect Shigeru Ban The Japanese architect—and winner of the 2014 Pritzker Prize—is working with Muji on a new endeavor: using furniture as a module...
A Picturesque Desert Prefab Jim Murren’s prefab house in Sin City, designed by Marmol Radziner, is as artful as it is art-filled, thanks to an asymmetrical...
Not Ready For a Prefab House? How About a Prefab Kitchen. Kitchen systems are a lot like prefab housing: they're designed to be modular but they're endlessly customizable—not that that's...
We Dream of Prefabs ...and wake up, every so often, to a project that fulfills the potential of mass-produced housing.
Q&A with Textile Designer Jack Lenor Larsen We chat with the masterful weaver, textile designer, and gardener whose global aesthetic continues to reverberate and influence...
7 Coolest California Prefabs With their main components manufactured in a factory and assembled on-site, prefab homes often cost less to build, offer a higher...
An Unconventional Prefab on Fishers Island A family’s remote island retreat becomes a more permanent home base, thanks to the efficiency of building modular.
9 Modern Prefabs in the Desert The barren beauty of a desert landscape can be a source of inspiration for off-the-grid prefab living.
This Isolated Prefab Is One with the Wild A home in Ontario, Canada, demonstrates how factory-built housing can be as site sensitive as traditional construction.
A Ruddy Shipping Container House Is Installed in New York in Only Two Days With a prefab structure near Hudson, LOT-EK—the pioneers of shipping container architecture—make a new case for the genre.
7 Prefabs Set in Nature One of the benefits of prefabricated and modular buildings is that they leave minimal construction waste and can be built without...
A Family’s Glass-Enclosed Cabin Hovers in a Pine Forest in Ecuador To turn a 700-square-foot home into a more permanent residence for a family of four, RAMA estudio attached a prefab...
This Eco-Minded Home in São Paulo Raises the Bar For Prefab Made of 100-percent recyclable materials and equipped with smart home technology, SysHaus is a new model by a Brazilian...
This Island Retreat in the Netherlands Flexes the Power of Prefab Designed by Orange Architects, the compact, energy-efficient home features open and airy interiors that can instantly be adjusted...
This Black Prefab Cabin in Uruguay “Melts” Into the Woods The modular design by iHouse is clad with sustainably sourced wood in a black finish, making it at home with the forest in more...
A Massive Metal “Caterpillar” Brings Eight Cost-Effective Apartments to Detroit Prince Concepts slices up a prefab Quonset hut to create a series of light-filled dwellings.
A Prefab Passive House Takes Root in the Catskills Assembled in just two weeks, the idyllic retreat near Woodstock, New York, realizes a couple’s dream of rural living.
A Seattle Musician Improvises During the Pandemic by Building Out His Own Backyard Cottage Starting with a design from prefab builder NODE, musician Michael Lerner relies on YouTube tutorials and perseverance to complete...
The Timber Screens of This Off-Grid Prefab in Italy Lift Up Like Wings Designed for a couple needing a temporary home, MU50 is a modular cabin whose moving sunshades create a dappled effect, called...
Raised in Just 10 Days, This Airtight Prefab Is a Lesson in Efficiency This stunning forest retreat in England uses prefabricated panels to minimize site impact, shorten construction time, and protect...
This Timber Prefab by Manta North Is What Dreams Are Made Of The Scandinavian-inspired prefab—a minimalist design that starts at $179K—is one family’s happy place by the sea.
10 Sunny Poolside Prefabs The idea of relaxing poolside or jumping in for a quick dip is pretty enticing—especially if the body of water is accompanied by...
Two Prefab Prisms Form an A-Frame Retreat in the Chilean Wilderness With an off-the-grid house on a remote mountain, architect Smiljan Radić rebuilds the past.
Muji Just Unveiled a New Prefab Home—and it’s a Minimalist Dream Come True The Japanese “no-brand” masters of minimalism unveil the first single-story design in their line of prefab homes.
Video: Prefab Japanese Joinery In our September 2011 Japan Style issue (now on newsstands!) we showcase a plethora of Japanese-influenced houses as well as...
This Floating, Off-Grid Prefab Can Be Assembled in Just Two Days Ready for life on land or water, the net-zero LilliHaus is a plug-and-play prefab by SysHaus.
A Dutch Couple Are the First Tenants of This Boulder-Shaped 3D-Printed Home The Flintstones-style home in Eindhoven is the first legally habitable house in Europe with 3D-printed load-bearing walls.