Prefab Homes

Modern prefab homes are built faster and have a smaller environmental impact than conventional construction methods—and as these projects show, they're the past, present and future of design.

From the Archive: The British Apartment Complex That Aimed to Rehab Prefab’s Poor Reputation

From the Archive: The British Apartment Complex That Aimed to Rehab Prefab’s Poor Reputation

How Do You Build a Floating Home, Anyway? This One Used a Modular System

How Do You Build a Floating Home, Anyway? This One Used a Modular System

To Save Their Family Home on a Greek Island, a Couple Import a Prefab

To Save Their Family Home on a Greek Island, a Couple Import a Prefab

The Best Prefab Homes of 2025

The Best Prefab Homes of 2025

From the Archive: An Architect’s High Stakes Prefab Competition

From the Archive: An Architect’s High Stakes Prefab Competition

Why a Prefab Builder Is Making Houses With “Original Tradwife” Martha Stewart

Why a Prefab Builder Is Making Houses With “Original Tradwife” Martha Stewart

A Sanctuary of a Home Hides Behind This Gray Wall in the Middle of Buenos Aires

A Sanctuary of a Home Hides Behind This Gray Wall in the Middle of Buenos Aires

Uruguay’s Coolest Prefab Builder Just Added a Tiny Retreat to a Client’s Property

Uruguay’s Coolest Prefab Builder Just Added a Tiny Retreat to a Client’s Property

A Prefab Cabin With Massive Windows Touches Down Lightly in a U.K. Forest

A Prefab Cabin With Massive Windows Touches Down Lightly in a U.K. Forest

You Can See Straight Through This Prefab Mountain Home Near São Paulo

You Can See Straight Through This Prefab Mountain Home Near São Paulo

More Than Half of This Finnish Architect’s Tiny Home Is Made From Recycled Materials

More Than Half of This Finnish Architect’s Tiny Home Is Made From Recycled Materials

From the Archive: Ryue Nishizawa’s Groundbreaking Tokyo Apartment Complex

From the Archive: Ryue Nishizawa’s Groundbreaking Tokyo Apartment Complex

Buying a Prefab ADU Was Supposed to Be Easier Than This

Buying a Prefab ADU Was Supposed to Be Easier Than This

Live-Edge Siding Covers This Prefab Cabin in Upstate New York

Live-Edge Siding Covers This Prefab Cabin in Upstate New York

What Makes This 603-Square-Foot Chilean Prefab Cabin Feel So Spacious?

What Makes This 603-Square-Foot Chilean Prefab Cabin Feel So Spacious?

Chicago Is Experimenting With a Solution to Depopulation: New Housing on City-Owned Land

Chicago Is Experimenting With a Solution to Depopulation: New Housing on City-Owned Land

From the Archive: How Konrad Wachsmann Became a Prefab Pioneer

From the Archive: How Konrad Wachsmann Became a Prefab Pioneer

Raw Plywood Is One of the Only Finishes in This Prefab Home

Raw Plywood Is One of the Only Finishes in This Prefab Home

Prefab Meets Handicraft in This Airy Spanish Home

Prefab Meets Handicraft in This Airy Spanish Home

Three Sisters (and Their Families) Share This Prefab Beach House

Three Sisters (and Their Families) Share This Prefab Beach House

Two Days, One Helicopter, and the Perfect Prefab Cabin in British Columbia

Two Days, One Helicopter, and the Perfect Prefab Cabin in British Columbia

Prefabs Can Look Unnatural. This One in Brazil Is Meant to Shift That Perception

Prefabs Can Look Unnatural. This One in Brazil Is Meant to Shift That Perception

This Mexican Prefab Cabin Avoids Clichés While Framing Nature

This Mexican Prefab Cabin Avoids Clichés While Framing Nature

On a Once-Vacant Corner Lot in Jersey City, a Sustainable Prefab Rises for $252K

On a Once-Vacant Corner Lot in Jersey City, a Sustainable Prefab Rises for $252K

Budget Breakdown: A $1.1M Prefab Gives a Divorcée a Fresh Start in Midcoast Maine

Budget Breakdown: A $1.1M Prefab Gives a Divorcée a Fresh Start in Midcoast Maine

Budget Breakdown: This $250K Prefab Cabin Is an Ode to the Finnish Sauna

Budget Breakdown: This $250K Prefab Cabin Is an Ode to the Finnish Sauna

In California’s High Desert, the Off-Grid iT House Takes Advantage of the Sun

In California’s High Desert, the Off-Grid iT House Takes Advantage of the Sun

From the Archive: An Experimental Firm Brought the Avant-Garde to Japan’s Factory-Made Houses

From the Archive: An Experimental Firm Brought the Avant-Garde to Japan’s Factory-Made Houses

We Dream of Prefabs...

We Dream of Prefabs...

Moshe Safdie’s Son Reflects on Growing Up in His Father’s Visionary Prefab Experiment, Habitat ’67

Moshe Safdie’s Son Reflects on Growing Up in His Father’s Visionary Prefab Experiment, Habitat ’67

This Multigenerational Home Near Carmel Is a Slice of Prefab Paradise

This Multigenerational Home Near Carmel Is a Slice of Prefab Paradise

Art Object or Machine for Living in?

Art Object or Machine for Living in?

Budget Breakdown: An Oregon Designer Turns a Quonset Hut Into a Guesthouse for $345K

Budget Breakdown: An Oregon Designer Turns a Quonset Hut Into a Guesthouse for $345K

Half the Floor Plan Is Outdoors at This Off-Grid Prefab in Washington

Half the Floor Plan Is Outdoors at This Off-Grid Prefab in Washington

Why Aren’t We Building More Modular Homes?

Why Aren’t We Building More Modular Homes?

This Tiny Cabin Village Near Helsinki Is a Model for Off-Grid Living

This Tiny Cabin Village Near Helsinki Is a Model for Off-Grid Living

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