Video Profiles in Modern Prefab

Prefab design and building is alive and well. Despite the industry having taken it on the chin recently, with the notable business failure of modern prefab pioneer, Michelle Kaufman Designs, closing their doors, a handful of small, agile prefab building companies are finding a way to stay alive and even thrive during the credit crisis and broader recession.
 

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Daniel Libeskind's Prefab Villa

 High-profile architect, Daniel Libeskind, 63, has designed a 5,500-square foot, two-story home, or as it is being marketed: The Daniel Libeskind Villa. Libeskinds's signature design vocabulary of bold angular, thrusting forms is found through out this design. Rejecting the rectilinear shapes common to a lot of modern prefab residential design. Except for a commission for a private home in Connecticut, this project represents Mr. Libeskind's only second attempt at residential home design.

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Thinking Inside the Box: Modern Cabana

Founded in 2004 by Casper Mork-Ulnes and Nick Danmer in San Francisco, CA, Modern Cabana is a private, family-owned business that builds small, prefabricated buildings.

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