The word prefabrication tends to conjure up one of various images – most of them negative. The prefabricated houses built after the Second World War – appreciated in their infancy but later condemned because of the dull environments they created. True architecture is site-specific, praises the use of local materials, fitness to climatic and topographic conditions. Prefabrication mostly meant mass production of the same housing unit in large numbers. But today's modular prefabricated systems up../MORE

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The word prefabrication tends to conjure up one of various images – most of them negative. The prefabricated houses built after the Second World War – appreciated in their infancy but later condemned because of the dull environments they created. True architecture is site-specific, praises the use of local materials, fitness to climatic and topographic conditions. Prefabrication mostly meant mass production of the same housing unit in large numbers. But today's modular prefabricated systems upon up great possibilities for creative designs in a contemporary vocabulary.