Design magazines love them. So do movie stars and environmental activists. New technology, including the use of robots in factories, makes them even easier to build. So why are advocates of prefab ...

Recent developments in prefab houses have offered us a type of freedom that wasn’t possible before. Projects such as the ...

Deltec’s factory-built houses get their power from solar panels—and incredible gains in efficiency. When a home-building company called Deltec Homes first launched in 1968, they focused on designing ...

Sheri Koones has spent the past few years writing about the new wave of prefab homes - the kind that no one would ever refer to as a "double-wide." In her new book, Prefabulous+Sustainable: Building ...

Amazon is selling a two-story tiny house with an open kitchen, two bedrooms, and a terrace. The tiny home is fully customizable and available at Amazon for less than $45,000.

Design magazines love them. So do movie stars and environmental activists. New technology, including the use of robots in factories, makes them even easier to build. So why are advocates of prefab ...

You can't buy a house on Amazon.com for self-assembly. Not yet, anyway. But prefab (or prefabricated) houses, long a modernist fantasy, are having a kind of moment. Over in Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards, ...

Prefab used to get a bad rap. Mass-produced in factories, modular homes were considered cheap, like the architectural equivalent of TV dinners. Buster Keaton famously parodied the prefab house in his ...

Only until some recent time ago, a "prefabricated house" was some synonym for small steel rooms placed to accommodate workers in a construction or industrial field or in parking lots; a practical ...

Some of the world's most famous architects have tried to use mass production techniques to design houses. Now, an exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art explores the history of the prefab house.

In the Sept. 12 issue of Forbes, I write about Blu Homes, a Massachusetts startup that makes green prefab houses that fold up in the factory for shipping and are unfolded on site and bolted to a ...