When it becomes economically possible, building will become montage.
I do not think it is an advantage to build planned packaged houses. If you prefabricate a house completely, it becomes an unnecessary restriction.
There is a change in the view about how condominiums are designed. People used to make prototype apartments and reproduce these boxes hundreds and even thousands of times, and then ask people to conform.
Two decades from now, I doubt that the home building industry, so called, will even exist as we have known it.
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
I think mobile homes are a blight on the planet. Attractive, affordable housing is possible, and I'm out to prove it.
The key virtue of orbital assembly is that it eliminates the tight connection between the size of the expedition and the size of the rockets used to launch it.
One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.
A space station is a rangy monstrosity, a giant erector set built by a madman.
