Green Prefab at a (Relatively) Bargain Price The New York Times recently picked up on the story of Thomas Small and Joanna Brody's Culver City, California, house designed by...
A Green, Lean, and Customizable Cardboard Prefab Live, work, or vacation in an eco-friendly, mobile cardboard prefab.
Small, Green, and Mighty: Hurricane-Proof Prefab A new prefab company represents the future of low-impact affordable housing.
6 Extraordinary Prefab Saunas With Prices Starting at $10K From refurbished gondolas to off-grid designs, these aren’t your average hotboxes.
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.
At $265K, Michael Graves’s First Commission Is a Bargain The four-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath residence features bright, white interiors and an original mural by Graves himself.
Greener Grass Craving the conveniences of city life, a couple sidle over to Seattle from the countryside without compromising their love of the...
Philippe Starck Dreams Up Super Green Prefab System The famed designer on how his modular living system offers a new, greener take on housing.
The Green Lagoon From the deck of this waterfront house, the scenery is abuzz with Northern California wildlife–but there's not a utility bill in...
This Bright Green Prefab in Sweden Looks Just Like a Monopoly House In Sweden, an architect finds an efficient building solution 260 miles from home.
When Prefab Is Painless An easy construction process reduces any drama for a couple in California.
This Super Smart, Super Green Prefab May Be the Future of Suburban Living The architecture firm superkül and home builder Great Gulf create a prefab with a self-regulating indoor climate.
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.
From Brown to Green Toronto designers Peter Fleming and Debbie Adams found a polluted lot and a run-down building—and saw fertile ground for a...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.