Prefabricated housing has meant many different things to many different people. Architects have designed prefabricated all-steel trailer houses, houses that would come in packages, factory-built "bubble" houses looking like brimless derbies. Prefabrication has been steadily bedeviled by technicalities, the economics of production, building trades' obstructionism, public unconcern. But every once in a while poor, young prefabrication makes news. Last week the Government approved another prefabrication project for defense housing (it had already approved 40 others). The designers: U.S. Architect Paul Lester Wiener, Spain's Town Planner José Luis Sert.
Their design is intended...
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