Architects worldwide are embracing prefabrication and modular techniques as the most timeless and sustainable approach to construction. Travel from New Zealand to Norway, Chile to the Czech Republic within the pages of Gestalten’s book, Prefab and Modular – Prefabricated Houses and Modular Architecture. A building that is prefabricated uses components made off-site that are then transported and assembled on-site to create the structure. It is an ancient practice, allowing for innovation and sustainability to exist side by side.

Gestalten’s book showcases a unique collection of structures that were built from prefabricated and modular techniques, including residential homes, cabins, public buildings, shacks, micro-homes, and temporary architecture. These vastly different structures are connected by that ineffable contemporary quality, that fresh feeling of security, that there are spaces and architectural practices in place that will hold us the way we need to be held. 

Yet another gorgeous and essential publication from gestalten, the book is available here.