PREFAB GROWS UP

摘要

Remember those perfectly trim and modern modular designs that were supposed to revolutionize the home-building industry, and that seemed to appear every other month on the cover of certain shelter magazines? Well, the prefab residential dream is still out there, battered but surviving, and seeming to cede none of the rhetorical high ground. Not long ago I saw an item about Pharrell Williams, the hip-hop impresario, teaming up with Zaha Hadid, Hon. FAIA, on a new line of prefab houses. ("There's a collaboration I'm working with Zaha Hadid," Williams told an interviewer.