Posted on 23/09/05
Prefab shelter from the storm
The current North American vogue for prefabricated housing has largely been a matter of cool aesthetics. What's admired by the style-conscious, affluent consumers of such residential architecture include hard industrial surfaces, machined planes and edges, a general sense of tense economy -- a kind of modernism that looks mass-produced (even though it usually isn't), and that can certainly be beautiful in its own tough, sleek way.
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