June 15, 2009

The [Latest] Death Of Prefab

Christopher Hawthorne writes about the latest trend in prefabricated modernist architecture: going out of business.

Michelle Kaufmann, Marmol Radziner, Empyrean...

Apparently, when you design houses for a perennially small niche, build them at a cost premium, and no bank will provide loans for them, it's hard to make a go of it in a depressed real estate market. Who knew?

Prefab movement needs to rethink its model [latimes via christopher's twitter]

architecture | posted by greg at June 15, 2009 12:01 AM