Of Google and Prefab Housing

In case you haven’t seen it, Rocio Romero’s LV Home is worth a look. Rocio was my thesis student in 1998-1999 (with Tom Buresh) and did a thesis on a headquarters (or meshquarters as she called it) for Linux, creating an argument for the use of Open Source in architecture along the way. Even if LV Home isn’t quite Open Source, it’s great to see her continuing her research along those lines.

Regrettably, so many architects seem caught in the trap that if they don’t create an aura through the unique (but with so many post-90s firms creating identical looking products, all topographical curves and squiggles, what is unique anymore?), they won’t get any business. Rocio, who is becoming much more succesful than many of these all-alike pseudo-avant-garde firms, is proving otherwise.

Speaking of prefab. It seems like Google has some ideas of their own.

In case you haven’t seen it, Rocio Romero’s LV Home is worth a look. Rocio was my thesis student in 1998-1999 (with Tom Buresh) and did a thesis on a headquarters (or meshquarters as she called it) for Linux, creating an argument for the use of Open Source in architecture along the way. Even if LV Home isn’t quite Open Source, it’s great to see her continuing her research along those lines.

Regrettably, so many architects seem caught in the trap that if they don’t create an aura through the unique (but with so many post-90s firms creating identical looking products, all topographical curves and squiggles, what is unique anymore?), they won’t get any business. Rocio, who is becoming much more succesful than many of these all-alike pseudo-avant-garde firms, is proving otherwise.

Speaking of prefab. It seems like Google has some ideas of their own.