Affordable Modern Prefab

Is it possible to design & build a distinctive looking modern prefabricated house? Take a look at this short video about Alchemy Architect's weeHouse being installed in various sites and configurations. For more detailed information about the weeHouse.

Early in the video there's a reference to the Lustron House, an early post-World War II effort to develop attractive manufactured homes. We found an interesting 15 minute video about the history of the Lustron and efforts to preserve one Lustron house.

For more on the signficance of the Lustron, take a look also at planning historian Laurence Gerckens' short piece "The Unfulfilled Promise of High Tech Housing" (and accompanying sidebar by Beth Orenstein with more on the Lustron) -- this was one section of our special issue, The Promise of America: Ten Successes and Ten Failures that Shaped the 20th Century American City (available to order & download).