Monday, March 23, 2026

Prefabrication experiments - 505 - Marrying Design and Affordability - The Modern Split-level

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The frictions between quality housing design and affordability are often restrictive but can sometimes generate innovative types. Seriality ...
Thursday, March 19, 2026

Prefabrication experiments - 504 - A New Generation of Curtain walls - Unitiwall

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  Modern construction methods generalized the use of new and speculative materials; however, some of these products and systems fulfilled sh...
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Prefabrication experiments - 503 - The Twentieth Century Brick

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  Blended to renew both affordable housing provision and the mobile home industry in the US, master modernist Paul Rudolph proposed a 4000-d...
Monday, March 2, 2026

Prefabrication experiments - 502 - The Grid and Modern Theory : Christian Norberg-Schulz’s case study houses

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  Well-known for his numerous publications and their contributions to architectural pedagogy in his native Norway and abroad, Christian Norb...
Thursday, February 19, 2026

Prefabrication experiments - 501 - Wanted : Integrated Product Delivery for Buildings

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  Increasing process entanglement, systemic trade and labour shortages, the colossal environmental footprint of building construction, and s...
Thursday, February 12, 2026

Prefabrication experiments - 500 - An Ongoing Tale of Two Fields: The Nakagin Capsule Tower (1972-2022)

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For this significant milestone -  blog post 500  - we close a series on how events, exhibits, publications, and comparisons to other industr...
Thursday, February 5, 2026

Prefabrication experiments - 499 - Automotive Industry versus Building Artistry...498(part 2)

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The juxtaposition of automobile manufacturing with architectural prefabrication has predicted paradigmatic shifts in construction, along wit...
Friday, January 30, 2026

Prefabrication experiments - 498 - Platforms : Bridging the Gap between Construction and Manufacturing

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Decades after large-scale building programs in almost every industrialized nation, prefab, offsite and industrialized building systems’ use ...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

Prefabrication experiments - 497 - Industrialization in the Building Industry

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  With a flattering foreword written by Moshe Safdie and an auspicious introduction by R. Buckminster Fuller, Barry James Sullivan's  In...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Prefabrication experiments - 496 - Refabricating Architecture (2004)

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  Manifestoes claiming how offsite construction can inflect productivity and reform construction from site intensive to factory-intensive pr...