Articles
- Architecture.com - Official site of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The Riba Journal has a searchable archive. The Library provides access to the online catalogue. This catalogue will locate books and drawings in the library's collection, but it also serves as an index to over 300 architectural periodicals owned by the RIBA Library. A title search for prefab, for example, yields over 100 results and includes books and articles. Clicking on the title of the journal will give you a Table of Contents for that particular issue.
- Before Buying a Prefab - By Amy Gunderson, New York Times, September 21, 2007.
- Design Notebook: Factory Fresh: Interstately Homes - By Alistair Gordon, New York Times, April 1, 2004.
- Finding Loans for Yurts or Prefabs - By Bob Tedeschi, New York Times, November 26, 2006.
- Green Acres, One Piece at a Time - Alastair Gordon, New York Times, December 9, 2004. Describes the process of installing the prefab designed by Oskar Leo Kaufmann (OLK), based in Dornbirn, Austria, in Mileses, New York. See also Putting The Fab In Prefab by Alistair Gordon, New York Times, September 26, 2002.
- Forecast: Fast and Warmer by Julie V. Iovine, New York Times, January 6, 2005.
- High-style prefabs cut second-home costs - By Sean O'Neill, Kiplinger's
- House Proud: High design in a factory-made home? Michelle Kaufmann believes she holds the key - By William Booth, Smithsonian Magazine, January 2007. "So in 2006, she took the plunge and bought her own factory, 25,000 square feet east of Seattle, from a retiring modular house builder. She moved in this past October, with a goal of producing 10,000 prefabs over the next ten years."
- House in a Box
- By Sara Lin, Wall Street Journal, March 14, 2008. (Rocio Romero,
FlatPak, NextHouse).
- Modern Kit Houses: Thinking Inside the Box - As told to Bethany Little, New York Times, October 15, 2004. "There are bamboo floors, wooden cabinets. There's rugged stone tile in the bathroom, and when you stand in the shower, the floor feels like real ground. I used to associate contemporary with cold, impersonal spaces, but this house has completely changed that. It's like living in a Japanese garden."
- Move Over, McMansions: Microhouses Are on the Rise - By Annelena Lobb, Wall Street Journal, June 14, 2006.
- Prefab Sprout - "Few prominet architects have wanted to associate themselves with the prefabricated house. Until now. Forum takes a closer look at a growing trend and draws attention to prefabs by Anders Wilhelmson, Force 4 and Arne Jacobsen." Forum AID, 4.05 (2005).
- Prefabs: Do-It-Yourselfer's Fantasy: Modern Housing, in a Kit - By Linda Lee, New York Times, November 13, 2003.
- Prefabs with a Modernist Sensibility - By Karen Olsson, New York Times, March 5, 2006. "They arranged to purchase a 1,520-square-foot Glidehouse, designed by Michelle Kaufmann, a San Francisco architect, for what came to about $253,000 and also bought land on a small commuter island west of Seattle."
- Putting the Fab in Prefab - By Alistair Gordon, New York Times, September 26, 2002.
- The Very Model of a Modern Modular House - By Daniel Akst, Wall Street Journal, May 29, 2003.
- Wrap it Up and Make it Home: A Prefab Who's Who - By By Sean O'Neill, Kiplinger's, July, 2006.
Books
- Prefab (2002) by Allison Arieff
- Prefab modern (2004) by Jill Herbers
- Princeton Architectural Press
- Loblolly House: Elements of a New Architecture
- Prefab Prototypes: Site-specific Design for Offsite Construction - By Mark Anderson and Peter Anderson
Firms
- Alchemy Architects - Geoffrey Warner, of St. Paul is known for his WeeHouse line of modular houses.
- Anderson Anderson Architecture - Peter and Mark Anderson, Seattle & San Francisco
- Architecture and Hygiene - Adam Kalkin, Bernardsville, New Jersey
- Boklok - Associated with Ikea
- Clever Homes - San Francisco. Known for its panelized houses. The firm's top model is the CH1.
- Collins and Turner - Penelope Collins and Huw Turner, Surry Hills, Australia.
- Cutler Anderson Architects - Bainbridge Island, Washington. Not prefab, but the Pine Forest Cabin is a gem.
- EcoContempo - Greg La Vardera, Merchantville, N.J. (Steel panel houses)
- ecospace
- Empyrean International - See Dwell Homes and NextHouse designed by architect Joel Turkel,
- Fabulous Prefabs - By Sean O'Neill, Kiplinger's, July 2006.
- FlatPak House - Charles Lazor, Minneapolis. See Design Life Now National Design Triennial 2006 podcast in which Lazor "talks about the ideas behind Flatpak House, a revolutionary pre-fabricated housing system which approaches architecture as a product that consumers can assemble and customize from a flexible kit of parts." There's also a transcript. See also Lazor's funiture company - Blu Dot and Forecast: Fast and Warmer by Julie V. Iovine, New York Times, January 6, 2005.
- Ftres arquitectos
- Futureproof-ed
- Heikkinen-Komonen Architects - Mikko Heikkinen and Markku Komenen, Helsinki, Finland
- Hive Modular - Minneapolis
- Kolatan Macdonald Studio
- KRDB - Krager & Assoc Design/Build, Austin, Texas.
- Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis - New York. Designed Upside House
- Living Homes - Santa Monica. Ray Kappe and David Hertz, architects
- Lot-Ek - Giuseppe Lignano and Ada Tolla
- Mark Mack - Venice, California. Designed the Judenburg West Housing project in Austria
- Marmol Radziner Prefab - Los Angeles
- m-house - Tim Pyne
- Massie Architecture - William Massie, Troy, New York
- Michael Jantzen - M-vironments
- Michelle Kaufmann Designs - Los Angeles
- Minihome - Andy Thomson. With images. See A home built with a clear conscience by John Bentley Mays, Globe & Mail, October 12, 2007, Mini and Marvelous Places, Going Green, One Home at a Time, CBC Radio, September 22, 2007.
- Modular Dwellings - Edgar Blazona
- Modern Cabana
- Morphosis - Waterbury, Connecticut.
Thom Mayne received the Pritzker Prize in 2005.
- Offenes Architektur System
- Office of Mobile Design - Jennifer Siegal, Venice, California. Designer of the Swellhouse. Siegel is a graduate of Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
- Oskar Leo Kaufmann - Dornbirn, Austria
- Pinc House - Stockholm, Sweden
- Resolution: 4 Architecture - New York. Firm headed by partners Joseph Tanney and Robert Luntz designs modern modular residential housing. They designed the Dwell Home in Pittsboro, North Carolina
- Rocio Romero - Designer of Luminhaus, located in Amherst, Virginia "located approximately 200 feet above the North Fork of the Buffalo River, 10 miles from the Blue Ridge Parkway and is minutes from George Washington National Forest and the Appalachian Trail." She also designed the Fish Camp.
- Royal Homes - Wingham, Ontario. There are four models of the Q Series Modernist homes designed by Kohn Shnier Architects
- Steven Holl - New York
- Studio 804 - Design/build program at the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Design headed by Dan Rockhill. Won Residential Architect's 2006 Project of the Year Award for 750 Shawnee Road and 3808 Lloyd Street.
- SU11 Architecture+Design - New York. Co-founded by Ferda Kolatan and Erich Schoenenberger
- Syndesis - David Hertz
- Target Graves Pavilions
- Taalman Koch - Los Angeles. Glass-and-aluminum iT house.
- Toyota Home - Steel-frame prefabs manufactured in Kasugai. The 1,300 sq. ft Smart Stage is $175,000; the 1,800-sq. ft. Espacio Mezzo has three bedrooms and a garage ($225,000). Toyota also has a stake in Misawa Homes.
- Tsubomi - "Aluminium space packaging system" (in Japanese)
- Velocity Art and Design - Their Modern Playshed ($2995), a prefab designed by Ryan Grey Smith, can be customized by adding "deck, colorful floor tiles, indoor/outdoor colored panels, and whiteboard, chalkboard, or finished birch ply panels." See Bauhaus Meets the Playhouse In Homeowners' Backyards by Jessie Knadler, Wall Street Journal, April 15-16, 2006.
- V2 World - Bob Jameson
- Werner Aisslinger - Loftcube - Berlin architect
- Wihelmson Arkitekter
Misc
- Dwell Magazine - Shelter magazine, based in San Francisco and owned by Lara Hedberg Deam. You can Subscribe through Amazon.com.
- fabprefab - Created by Michael Sylvester, an architect and business consultant
- Fast and Affordable: A Century of Prefab Housing - Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University
- Inhabitant: Prefab Housing
- Prefabs.com
- Some Assembly Required: Contemporary Prefabricated Houses - Walker Art Center exhibition, December 8 - March 26, 2006. With Gallery Guide and Audio Tours on Pinc House, Rocio Romero LLC, Resolution: 4 Architecture, Marmol Radziner + Associates, Lazor Office, Michelle Kaufmann Designs, Steven Holl Architects, and Alchemy Architects.