Author(s): Anthony Denzer
In April 1945 the New York Times announced: 鈥淭omorrow, if it鈥檚 a nice dayin Rockford, Ill., a new house will go up…. It will combine two principleswidely acclaimed as inevitable for post-war home building鈥攑refabricatedconstruction and solar planning.鈥滱s the Times indicated, prefabrication and solar heating were the two issuesthat would have interested any progressive architect in the mid-1940s. Yetthe two movements rarely intersected. For the most part, architects interestedin prefabrication did not pursue solar heating. And vice-versa, solararchitects almost exclusively designed one-off custom site-built projects.This historical paper examines those rare instances of intersection, plus thewider affinities and contradictions between prefab and solar at midcentury.
Volume Editors
John Quale, Rashida Ng & Ryan E. Smith
ISBN
978-0-935502-85-5