prefabbed offsite. The SmallHouse is designed by Bauart Architekten and now available in Europe. This site is in German, so you might want to use Google's translation tool which does a pretty good job. en.red-dot.org Topsider Homes Topsider Homes produces prefabricated packaged home building systems, featuring client-designed spaces of floor-to-ceiling glass, vaulted ceilings and exposed beams. Really nice looking homes of all types. The one above is built in the Bahamas. Shipped worldwide since 1968. www.topsiderhomes.comm Linwood Custom Cedar Homes Since 1968, Linwood Custom Cedar Homes has been building kit homes. Vast selection of prefab house designs. www.linwoodhomes.com Geodesic Dome Homes American Ingenuity geodesic dome homes and modular home plans. Custom concrete dome floor plans, or pre-fab home kits. www.aidomes.com Landmark Landmark's panelized home kits can be customized to your taste. Use standard plans or develop your own. Kit houses for owner builders. Floor plan can be customized to your needs. www.lhlc.com Fabrik-International Panelized House Kit Panelized house structure ideal for self-builder and contractor. They say they can panelize any residential or commercial building. www.fabrik-international.com Modular Construction Home Modular Construction Homes by The Home Store, building modular homes in New England and the Hudson Valley. National award winner. www.the-homestore.com Single Hauz Like an inhabitable billboard, the Single Hauz by Poland's front architects proposes cantilevering domestic living space from a central mast. This might work in areas of low wind... but I am not so sure about the plumbing issues. Front Architects Tropical Pavilion Prefabricated wooden houses and bungalows, gazebos and pavilions. Carefully sourced from legal, sustainable forrestries, Tropical Pavilion manufactures these structures from native Coconut Wood, Bengkirai, and Merbau, and ships internationally. www.tropicalpavilion.com The National Modular Housing Council This is the official website of the National Modular Housing Council, the only national organization for industry concerning modular home construction. This organization represents the interests of modular home manufacturers, builders, developers, and lenders. This site provides information on modular housing regulations, legislation, definitions, builder information, and statistics. www.modularcouncil.org "The Revolution Will be Modular" - The Sydney Morning Herald "Harper and her environmental engineer husband, Andy Irvine, are passionate about finding better ways to build. [The Danger Island House] is a prototype of a prefabricated building system Harper developed in her work in remote communities..." The system described in the article uses steel frames described as "picture frames" of regular dimensions which bolt together to form a skeleton. Coverings, windows, doorways and other modules of matching dimensions are then bolted to the skeleton. The entire process is designed to be assembled with little expertise, and as few as two people. Read more about the system in the article by The Sydney Morning Herald Definitions Prefab, modular, manufactured and panelized housing are terms that are used pretty loosely to describe various types of home building options that are preassembled to some degree before they are delivered to the site. There is overlap between very low end 'tornado-magnet' trailer housing and very top drawer architecture delivered in modules. Newer "house-trailers or mobile homes", are much more likely to be called the better sounding term: "manufactured housing".