In a market where housing prices keep climbing, prefabricated homes are emerging as an affordable alternative for those ...

EMERYVILLE-- Prefab houses aren't just for trailer parks anymore. Two Bay Area startups are crafting factory-built homes and rooms for the high-end market, the kind of people who want an ...

Sometimes, work thought up by acclaimed designers takes longer than expected to enter the world. New York City’s Four Freedoms Park, designed by architect Louis Kahn, took decades to go from plans to ...

Design News readers don't usually workon houses. All the appliances and consumer products that fill a house may befair game, but the actual house design is something left to architects. A new exhibit ...

As the multifamily space becomes more open to the idea of modular design, non-traditional building methods have become more popular. Despite the pervading conventional wisdom, modular builders are ...

Koto LivingHome 2 from Plant Prefab, a minimalist abode that sticks out from the factory-built pack. (Courtesy Koto Design) With offices on the southwest coast of England and in Northern Ireland, Koto ...

Housing is a diverse architectural typology whose configuration is determined not only by those who design it but also by the use of those who live in it. Therefore, homes are fundamentally adaptable ...

Wittman Estes, an architecture studio based in Seattle, has unveiled the Whidbey Puzzle Prefab, an innovative take on sustainable modular housing. This 600-sq-ft (55.75-sqm) tiny prototype, located on ...

A house isn’t always a home and a home isn’t always a house. The concept of a home is both universal and distinctly unique to each individual person and each culture from every part of the world. From ...

The cost to build a modular home is between $180,000 to $360,000, with a national average cost of $270,000. Factors that affect the total cost of a modular home include the home size, style, and brand ...

Developers, colleges and universities, and AEC teams are embracing prefabrication and modular construction for purpose-built ...