PREFAB FRIDAY: SUNSET CABIN

Although it’s not your typical prefab, we found the level of design and approachable scale of this Canadian cabin to be irresistibly charming. The owners asked Toronto-based architecture firm

GET A FREE VINTAGE PREFAB – DEADLINE APRIL 12

The divergence of prefab from its original utilitarian intentions has some buyers in a snit – How did prefabrication turn into a fashion show? Prefab was invented to be affordable! For those of you

PREFAB FRIDAY: Prefabmod

In a world full of deceptive marketing and ambiguous ad campaigns, it’s refreshing to get a straight story; which is why today’s prefab pick has such obvious appeal. Prefabmod is exactly what

PREFAB FRIDAY: Karim Rashid’s KIT24 Update

Karim Rashid’s Kit24 house was revealed several weeks ago at Toronto’s 2006 Interior Design Show. When we last wrote about Kit24, we could only gaze at the candy-coated renderings and dream of

PREFAB FRIDAY: Icelandic Prefab Update

Some time ago, we wrote about Icelandic design firm Glama-Kim’s prefab Summerhouse. A few days ago, I got a nice email from architect Olafur Mathiesen with an update on their work, including some

PREFAB FRIDAY: Place Homes

While prefabrication lends itself to making the simplest of homes, some designers have been getting mighty fancy with their prefabs lately. We don’t mind the bells and whistles, but as the people

PREFAB FRIDAY: Andrew Maynard

We just can’t get enough of Andrew Maynard, so we thought we’d say a few more words about him for our Prefab Friday roundup. In the diverse collection of projects in Maynard’s portfolio,

PREFAB FRIDAY: Studio Force4

We’ve talked a few times about urban bioremediation projects, in which trees and plants are used as tools to clean contaminated land. This kind of renewal not only spares the use of invasive

PREFAB FRIDAYS: The Clever MINI Home

They say that good things come in small packages, and where the new MINI home is concerned, we concur. The compact 480-sq-ft design from Clever Homes makes minimalist living efficient and elegant. With an

PREFAB: MODULAR DWELLINGS

Avid readers of ReadyMade magazine may recognize the work of Edgar Blazona. The San Francisco based designer created a do-it-yourself modernist outbuilding featured in issue #10 a while back (see below).

PREFAB FRIDAYS: M-VIRONMENTS

Michael Jantzen’s work transcends modern design. A m-lange of space-age sculpture and tinker-toy experiment, Jantzen’s buildings and houses span a vast range of functions and architectural

WIRED on PREFAB

Wired magazine has a great new piece on prefab in their latest issue. The article covers some of our favorite leaders in the prefab movement, including Michelle Kaufmann for her Glidehouse, Jennifer

BUSINESSWEEK LOVES PREFAB

As if the recent explosion of publications and conferences about Prefab housing (Prefab Now, Fab Prefab) weren’t enough – now a new article in Business Week confirms what we’ve long

THE CARDBOARD HOUSE

If you’re a fan of prefab homes, you’ll love this fabbest-of-prefab Cardboard House. The $35,000, all-cardboard structure comes flat-packed and can be erected on site in under 6 hours. It is

MICRO-MINI HOME

Inspired by the intimate scale of a Japanese tea house and the compact efficiency of a smart-car, students working on a joint project between the Technical University of Munich and the Tokyo Institute of

AN UNTRASHY TRAILER

If you are a fan of Modern design, and you are in the market for a trailer home, then the stars are aligning for you, my friend. Who knew even five years ago that there would be so many affordable and

MODERN-SHED

These days I’m feeling a little forlorn that I’ve moved away from the golden state, and thus missed CA Boom, which just wrapped up last night in Santa Monica. Fortunately the event is being

HIVE MODULAR PREFAB

Hive Modular is three architects who dreamt of building affordable pre-fab homes. Affordable prefab, you ask? Isn’t all prefab affordable? Although prefabricated building is meant to be affordable

IKEA PREFAB HOUSING

Since IKEA was the innovator of mass-customized, flat-packed furniture it comes as no surprise to learn that the Swedish furniture behemoth is going to start selling prefab houses in the UK next year.

NEWSWEEK + DESIGN

Whats up? Is Newsweek all of a sudden a design publication? In the past couple months, I keep finding articles about modern, sustainable design in Newsweek/MSNBC. This week there is an article about

SUNSET BREEZEHOUSE

Michelle Kaufman’s latest eco-prefab house, the Breezehouse, was unveiled to the public this weekend. The newest “clean and green” prefabricated home is a collaboration between Sunset

STARCHITECT PREFAB

Although I’m not the biggest Frank Gehry fan, I am a huge fan of prefab housing. Therefore, I am very excited to hear that Gehry is joining the ranks of the Starchitects who design prefab homes.

LOFTCUBE: Prefab for Rooftops

Being a young New Yorker and realizing that I am never going to be able to buy property in New York has got me thinking about prefabs. Specifically about buying an inexpensive prefab house and sticking it

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