Prefab is a buzzy topic in architecture and design circles
right now, but it’s hardly a new concept. The idea of building houses in
factories and shipping them to their destinations is at least a century old.
One of the first prefabricated homes was built in Germany
and fit on slab construction by architect Robert Krafft and the
engineer Friedrich Förster in 1929 for the major industrial companies Hirsch
copper and brass works was developed (HKM).
The copper houses were one display at the 1931 International
Colonial Exhibition in
won a Grand Prix Award and was later shown at the German Building
Exhibition in
1933, at least 54 of these manufactured homes were produced.
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| These are Kupferhaus homes built in the 1930’s |
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