Word: prefabs
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Tiny Houses (Rizzoli) With large-scale living now passé, journalist Mimi Zeiger examines the new "microgreen" housing trend in this collection of prefab and modular homes...
Then again, what are visionaries for if not to launch thought balloons? And 25 years after his death at age 87, there are unmistakable traces of Fuller's thinking in everything from prefab housing to sustainable green architecture. That's more than enough of a legacy to fill "Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe," a show of drawings, models, videos and pipe dreams that runs through Sept. 21 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City and then reprises next summer in Chicago...
...Kala,” is an ode to modern originality. Each song is a tenuous marriage of world sounds—Baile Funk, hip hop, rock, and many more. To some, these tracks may sound like no more than an amalgamation of other people’s prefab music. What M.I.A. creates, however, isn’t simply an amalgamation or a composite; it’s synthesis, and a personal kind of synthesis at that. It’s innovative music. You might not be as familiar with Santogold, née Santi White. A former punk band singer...
...conventional publishers in the past, but as a small business, she didn't want to wait years to accommodate publishing's long lead times. "I thought, This is the book we've been wanting to do," she says. She spent two months pulling together the content to create Prefab Green--100 glossy pages of text, color photos and detailed floor plans--sent it off as an electronic file and had a stack of hardcovers to give to clients in less than two weeks...
Conventional book publishing, of course, has marketing and distribution muscle that no self-publisher can match, and Kaufmann hasn't ruled it out. In the meantime, a replica of her "Glidehouse" remains on display at the National Building Museum in Washington. On sale at the museum's bookstore: Prefab Green...