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#233/Fabulous Prefab: Gordon Stott + Jared Levy + Greg Leung + Steve Glenn + Yves Béhar
#233/Fabulous Prefab: Gordon Stott + Jared Levy + Greg Leung + Steve Glenn + Yves Béhar
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Length:
89 minutes
Released:
Jan 31, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
The promise and pursuit of successful prefab houses has been going on nearly 100 years. Frank Lloyd Wright tried and it didn’t go so well. Sears, the retail store that's hurting these days, had a pretty good run in the early 20th century. For a while, people loved ordering houses right out of the Sears catalog. Later on after WWII, the cult favorite Lustron, well, not so much. There have been more than a dozen firms trying to create a modular home line that people will buy in large-enough numbers. But the idea of getting a well-designed, energy-efficient, affordable factory-built house delivered to your lot and assembled in days or weeks? What’s not to like? Today we continue the prefab quest with Connect Homes’ Gordon Stott, Jared Levy, and Greg Leung. Then we visit with Steve Glenn, founder and CEO of Plant Prefab and Steve’s collaborator, Swiss designer Yves Béhar. Later on, a few minutes with Frank Harmon.
Released:
Jan 31, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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