The Guardian’s take on the MoMA exhibit
The Guardian has an in depth, insightful commentary criticizing the link between the prefab and environmental movements aimed in particular at the stir that the MoMA exhibit has created:
Beyond prefab’s trendiness, or perhaps to facilitate it, advocates are pushing its purported environmental advantages. Built on an assembly line, its waste output can be much lower than site-built houses. Bulk purchasing allows cheaper access to eco-friendly materials like solar panels. There’s no construction site, per se, so the area surrounding the house is less impacted. As Greenbiz, an online environmental news site, wrote last fall: “While they may seem like an odd couple, prefabricated housing - in which most of a home’s structure is pre-built in a factory then assembled on-site - is an oddly natural partner for the green movement.”
