PIONEERS OF PREFAB ARCHITECTURE - CRYSTAL PALACE AND MAISON CITROHAN

<p>Although prefabricated buildings have long been present in modern civil engineering and architectural practice, they still have strong supporters and opponents. This paper explores the achievements of prefabricated construction in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century by presenting two significant buildings: Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace in London from 1851, and Le Corbusier’s Maison Citrohan in Stuttgart, developed between 1920 and 1927.</p> <p>These authors and their buildings - each in their own time - pushed the boundaries of prefabricated construction through their authenticity, ideas, visions, applied technologies, and materials, opening the door to a method still in use today.</p>