History
A story from 1920s
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A story from 1920s
Buster Keaton’s 1921 film One Week features a newlywed couple living in a prefab house. Seemingly an innovative concept, prefab building is actually “architecture’s oldest new idea”. It was during the post-war era in the early 20th century, a period of accommodation crisis, that the concept of “prefab housing” became popular across Europe, Japan and U.S. Thanks to the assembly line advanced by Henry Ford, this construction model has been fully developed in the recent decades.
