The Prefabricated Home

"An impassioned call to architects to change their attitudes to design processes, manufacturing methods and relationships with clients. . . The Prefabricated Home is a more complex and provocative book than it might at first appear. By turns angry and optimistic, it is both a challenging and enjoyable read."

― Building Design Published On: 2005-06-03

"Simple . . . necessary." ― Parachute Published On: 2006-01-01

"An excellent survey of the prefabrication debate." ― Grand Designs Published On: 2006-06-01

"A modestly titled but densely informative book that could potentially help change the world, for real. . . . He reveals fresh insight on the braoder issues of architecture and the original ideals of the modernists. . . . [Davies] writes with clarity, grace, and an intellectual rigour that is surprisingly free of jargon. The Prefabricated Home is a brilliant and timely book for anyone in the profession." -- Adele Weder ― Azure Published On: 2006-01-01

"An incisive, provocative, and well researched polemic." -- Stephen Mullin ― Architectural Review Published On: 2006-06-01

“Easy-to-read and provocative . . . the book will be valuable to a wide and diverse audience of general readers, design students, practitioners, and academics . . . Davies achieves such broad appeal by cleverly packaging two narratives into one book. His polemic on modern architecture is embedded inside of a competent short history of western architects' experimentations with prefabricated single family homes.”

― Design Issues

Colin Davies is professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of North London and the author of High-tech Architecture.