A Walk Thru of FLW's Robie House

The Robie House, photo by Flickr user ..holes▲

Chicago Tonight recently featured a short piece on the history of Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House in Chicago.

The Robie House and it's neighbor, The Graduate School of Business, by Flickr user Grufnik

The Modular Mansion

I've had the March 4th Metro section of the Washington Post laying on my desk for about a month, with a fantastic cover article on a modular house, or rather mansion, that was recently built in Bethesda, MD right outside DC. The modular boxes were dropped in place in a matter of 32 hours.



The article says the construction process was 4 months as opposed to 10 month stick built process.

A comparison of prefab and stick built homes: