Prefab Comes Home

A 2012 biography highlights the rich, black-and-white photography of Balthazar Korab, whose sharp imagery helped give a face to modernist architecture in midcentury America.

The efficiency and aesthetics of prefab proved appealing to the owner of this Dwell Home, built on a rugged island off Canada’s western coast.

A new project by Muji mastermind Kenya Hara celebrates the relationship between humans and dogs, one downloadable blueprint at a time.

In inner-city Baltimore, Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake paves a path to affordable prefab.

Jared Levy of Connect:Homes wants to streamline the construction process down to the very seams, while making it affordable for all.

Adding less than $100,000 of improvements to an off-the-shelf prefab model resulted in a clean-cut structure at the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada.

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

A prefabricated lakeside New Jersey retreat is one woman's outdoorsy counterpoint to city life.

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

They wanted their unit—one of 148 in the landmark prefab housing complex—to harmonize with the Montreal building’s original architecture.

Seeking a way to blend architecture into the natural environment, a pair of Ecuador-based designers invents a new modular building system.

An unlikely source provides a unique privacy solution for a pair of prefab townhouses in Los Angeles.

Designer Jens Risom returns to his 1967 prefab off the coast of Rhode Island, readying it for his family's next generation.

A 1950s Joseph Esherick home in Berkeley, California, inspires an addition that pays homage to the past yet is poised to host the next generation.