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Assistant Provost Buffington says Summers and Hyman also encouraged collaboration and support between HBS and SAI. Summers told HBS Dean Kim B. Clark to look at the new Mumbai Center as a “modular system,” according to Buffington. The modular model, Buffington says, recommends that schools or centers looking to expand abroad should seek partnerships with other sectors of Harvard in the area. When convenient, as in the case of the HBS and SAI centers in Mumbai, they should share office space and administrative support with other Harvard groups...
...just standardized his plywood interiors, which were to be "assembled like a big jigsaw puzzle in space," when his relationship with the N.S.W. government broke down and he resigned. During the '70s, Utzon would go on to perfect his "additive architecture" with the box-like Bagsvaerd Church and the modular Kuwait National Assembly, though in recent years his design has become sparer. A building should be left "to be what it wants to be," he has said, echoing the words of American architect Louis Kahn...
...Gates. New Jersey architect-cum-performance artist Adam Kalkin is taking orders for his 2,000-sq.-ft. Quik House kit made from steel and shipping containers and priced as low as $76,000, not including land. And Frank Gehry protege Michelle Kaufmann recently debuted Glidehouse, a moderately priced modular home (averaging 1,350 sq. ft.), so named for a series of sliding panels that hide storage spaces and regulate light and airflow. Although prefabs account for less than 30% of new home construction, they are ushering in affordability with style. "Prefab is making good design available to the masses...
Inspired by the Sears, Roebuck mail-order homes that sprang up in the early 1900s, "designer prefab" spans a number of highly nuanced--and often confounding--housing categories. Variously described as systems-built, modular, panelized, kit or manufactured, prefab homes are constructed at least partially in factories before being transported to building sites. There they can be assembled quickly, sometimes in a matter of days. While most of the new-age houses in a box have yet to be mass-produced, an expected rise in interest rates and a public hungry to meld good design with low cost will make...
...market. Last year Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway, spent about $1.7 billion to acquire Clayton Homes, a manufactured-housing company in Tennessee that had sales of $1.2 billion in 2003. This year Clayton, in turn, spent $373 million to acquire Oakwood Homes, which offers a mix of modular and more traditionally manufactured homes. The lower end of the prefab industry is recovering after a wave of defaults resulting from overzealous lending. With interest rates climbing, more customers may now opt for relatively inexpensive manufactured homes. Recently, the damage caused by Hurricane Charley boosted stocks of companies that specialize in manufactured...