Thursday, August 28, 2008 at 9:38 am
Instant Houses
Burst*oo8, Douglas Gauthier & Jeremy Edminston /LACAYO
I've checked in a few times this summer with "Home Delivery", the Museum of Modern Art show about prefabricated housing, an idea whose time is always coming but never quite comes. This is what I had to say about it recently in Time.
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Richard Lacayo writes about books, art and architecture at TIME Magazine, where he arrived in 1984. He is the co-author, with George Russell, of Eyewitness: 100 Years of Photojournalism and has won various lesser known journalism prizes, which he keeps in his desk drawer. Read more
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Monday, September 1, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Prefab has been around for quite a long time, but never seems to hit the market. Perhaps familiarity does breed contempt after all.
Indeed, with the modern computer-assisted design for mass customization, the new concept of prefab may resurface with a bang. Architecture is always on the move, reinventing and rediscovering itself with the time.
“Architecture is all about having the passion to create, and nothing helps that process more than having a curious mind”. My son ruminates.
(Tan Boon Tee)