Allison Arieff co-authored the book “Prefab” in 2002, chronicling the history of prefabricated houses and mapping the possible future of environmentally responsible modular home design and fabrication ...
In some areas of the U.S., people who own homes deemed “historic” are fighting local preservationists for their right to install solar panels. The reason? Panels are too ugly, according to a recent ...
Quick look: The book profiles 32 homes across the country, and explains some of the latest technologies. In a foreword, Robert Redford extols the ecological virtues of going prefab. Author Sheri ...
Design magazines love them. So do movie stars and environmental activists. New technology, including the use of robots in factories, makes them even easier to build. So why are advocates of prefab ...
Deltec’s factory-built houses get their power from solar panels—and incredible gains in efficiency. When a home-building company called Deltec Homes first launched in 1968, they focused on designing ...
It seems like everywhere you look these days you see homes covered with solar panels. If Tesla’s recent announcement about solar roof tiles is any indicator, this trend is here to stay. While moving ...
Prefab used to get a bad rap. Mass-produced in factories, modular homes were considered cheap, like the architectural equivalent of TV dinners. Buster Keaton famously parodied the prefab house in his ...
They say necessity is the mother of invention, but when it comes to a need for housing in an overpriced real estate market, it's usually the mother of depression. At first things seemed headed in that ...
You can't buy a house on Amazon.com for self-assembly. Not yet, anyway. But prefab (or prefabricated) houses, long a modernist fantasy, are having a kind of moment. Over in Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards, ...
The dream of a cutting-edge prefabricated modern house is inching closer to reality. A prefab from Austria has been pieced together in upstate New York. Another one, Glidehouse, is under construction ...
Design magazines love them. So do movie stars and environmental activists. New technology, including the use of robots in factories, makes them even easier to build. So why are advocates of prefab ...
Design magazines love them. So do movie stars and environmental activists. New technology, including the use of robots in factories, makes them even easier to build. So why are advocates of prefab ...
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