Metropolis Magazine - Get Smart:
"Prefab housing has a long history in America, beginning in 1908 when Sears introduced its mail-order kit homes in its catalog. Since then economic forces, social and aesthetic currents, and the environmental movement have exerted various influences on the form, giving rise to a series of incarnations and mutations--from mobile homes like the Airstream and its less glamorous trailer-module cousins to the guerrilla chic of shipping-container architecture and Dwell's prefab home competition. The latest project from Ikea--purveyor of all things affordable and modern--is one of a number of signs that after a long decline since its heyday in the early seventies, the prefab home may be making a comeback."
