Exhibition Information Date:  December 8, 2005 - March 26, 2006 Place:  Medtronic Gallery Date:  April 29 - September 4, 2006 Place:  Vancouver Art Gallery Address:  Vancouver, British Columbia Date:  October 27, 2006 - February 2, 2007 Place:  Yale School of Architecture Address:  New Haven, Connecticut Date:  February 28 - May 20, 2007 Place:  Museum of Contemporary Art, Pacific Design Center Address:  Los Angeles, California Date:  June 10 - September 2, 2007 Place:  Virginia Center for Architecture Address:  Richmond, Virginia View all associated images View this exhibition in the Walker Calendar
		Image: Lazor Office, Flat Pak House, Minneapolis, MN , 2004 Photo: Cameron Wittig

Today’s prefab movement has captured the spirit and imagination of a new generation of architects and home buyers, who together have championed a variety of modern modular dwellings that challenge preconceptions about “prefab” homes as cheap, cookie-cutter structures of last resort. This exhibition presents a variety of approaches to prefab—from houses owners can build from a kit of parts, such as Rocio Romero’s LVL House, to those that arrive fully assembled like the diminutive one-room version of weeHouse by St. Paul-based Alchemy Architects. Among the featured projects are the glimmering sculptural metallic Turbulence House by Steven Holl; Black Barn, a pitched-roof, modern adaptation of a Viking longhouse designed and produced by Pinc House of Sweden; and the playful system of Lazor FlatPak by Lazor Office of Minneapolis. Whether Michelle Kaufmann’s Sunset Breezehouse, which adopts a variety of ecological approaches to living and building, or the precision and craft of Marmol Radziner’s Desert House or the customizable configurations of Resolution: 4 Architecture, such houses better parallel the lifestyles of their owners, who desire more flexible living spaces and want to speed the pace of the building process without sacrificing the quality of materials or construction. For more and more people, prefab meets the conditions that make the dream of owning a modern home a reality.

Curator: Andrew Blauvelt

Promotional partner Dwell magazine. Exhibition furnishings provided by Design Within Reach.

	Tour Pre-Fabs of Steel . . . and Glass, Concrete, and Wood: A Tour of Minneapolis Modular Homes Saturday, February 18, 2006   10:00 am to 1:00 pm
	Discussion Minnesota Modern: Prefab in Process Thursday, February 16, 2006   7:00 pm
	Family Program Totally MODular Free First Saturday Saturday, February 4, 2006   10:00 am to 5:00 pm
	Art Activity Absolutely Pre-Fabulous Target Free Thursday Nights Thursdays in February 2 - 23, 2006   6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
	Family Program Pretty FABulous Free First Saturday Saturday, January 7, 2006   10:00 am to 5:00 pm
	Panel Discussion Opening-day Panel Discussion and Reception Thursday, December 8, 2005   6:30 pm

Walker Begets weeHouse http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/2007/09/13/walker-begets-weehouse/ Walker blogs, Off Center: Architecture

Centerpoints 4.1 http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/?p=573 Walker blogs, Off Center: News

Exhibition Web Site http://design.walkerart.org/prefab/

8-BALL: Charlie Lazor http://design.walkerart.org:8083/detail.wac?id=2499&title=Articles One of Blu Dot’s founding triumvirate, Charlie Lazor is also the principle of Minneapolis-based architectural firm Lazor Office. In 2004 he completed FlatPak House, a prefabricated home for his family in Kenwood. Lazor recently took time to answer some of life’s most—and possibly least—pressing questions.

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