Comments on: Instant Houses http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2008/08/28/instant_houses/ Reflections on art and architecture by TIME critic Richard Lacayo. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:49:16 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Tan Boon Tee http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2008/08/28/instant_houses/comment-page-1/#comment-305 Tan Boon Tee Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:17:59 +0000 http://lookingaround.blogs.time.com/2008/08/28/instant_houses/#comment-305 Prefab has been around for quite a long time, but never seems to hit the market. Perhaps familiarity does breed contempt after all. Indeed, with the modern computer-assisted design for mass customization, the new concept of prefab may resurface with a bang. Architecture is always on the move, reinventing and rediscovering itself with the time. “Architecture is all about having the passion to create, and nothing helps that process more than having a curious mind”. My son ruminates. (Tan Boon Tee) Prefab has been around for quite a long time, but never seems to hit the market. Perhaps familiarity does breed contempt after all.

Indeed, with the modern computer-assisted design for mass customization, the new concept of prefab may resurface with a bang. Architecture is always on the move, reinventing and rediscovering itself with the time.

“Architecture is all about having the passion to create, and nothing helps that process more than having a curious mind”. My son ruminates.
(Tan Boon Tee)

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