Prefab Modern

Prefabrication, the Speculative Builder’s Tool, Has Been Discovered by Modernist Designers, Architecture Record 12.03, is a continuing education article that discusses recent developments in architects' application of prefabrication technologies to the residential home market. This in an interesting, wide-ranging article from both design and technology standpoints.

The work of featured architects is particularly worth a look:

• Resolution: 4 Architecture's winning entry in Dwell magazine's competition for prefabricated homes is based on traditional modular construction. This project is not only conceptual--it will soon be built for a North Carolina client.
• Nottoscale
have developed a modular system based on automotive manufacturing principals.
• Designer Tim Pyne's m-house is based on traditional mobile home technology.
• Architects KieranTimberlake Associates used off-site fabrication techniques to overcome challanging site and scheduling issues for Upper Court, Pierson College, a new dormitory addition at Yale University.

Another interesting resource identified in this article is Michael Sylvester's fabprefab site dedicated to prefabricated and modular systems for construction of homes in the modernist style.