The Future of Housing?
There is an exhibit called Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling at MoMA, Museum of Modern Art in New York, that explores the history and future of pre-fabricated housing. Click here, Pre-Fab Housing Exhibit, to take a look at the New York Times article about the exhibit.
I think that one of the things that holds back pre-fabricated housing is that it often readily rejects the forms, details, and characteristics that define “home” to people all around the world. Metal and plastic boxes, unfortunately, convey impersonal, nameless, and robotic references. Gone are the symbols of shelter and safety, family and security, comfort and nostalgia. Maybe someone can find a way to mass-produce economical, well-built housing while maintaining our psychological connections to other human beings and our cultural past.
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Bill Hirsch
www.designingyourperfecthouse.com
Tags: architecture, Design, dream house, homebuilding, house design, pre-fabricated housing, residential architecture
