Fab Pre-Fab Buildings

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Siddhartha Mitter
WNYC News | Jul 12, 2010

New York, NY —

With all the anxiety about mortgages and foreclosures, you might forget another part of the housing crisis: The need for affordable new housing in many parts of the country. A new exhibition at MoMA shows how some architects are working with prefabricated housing to come up with new housing solutions. WNYC’s Siddhartha Mitter has this profile of one such effort.

Slideshow: Pre-fab housing at MoMA

MoMa's show Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling website

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