Here's a link to an article about the unfortunate demise of Michelle Kaufmann's pre fab housing company. She was riding high when we toured her beautiful "Smart Home" at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago a few years ago, but the economic downturn and the inability to get costs where they need to be has kept these homes on the drawing board and as an exhibit. Read about it here.
An interesting side note: The only other model home to be built on the grounds of the MSI was a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Usonian Automatic (another pre fab house design that never took off) that toured the country in the 1980s. Read about it here and here.
Image via the MSI website & sterinerag.com
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