ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionRegine Hess, Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler, Tzafrir Fainholtz, and Yael AllweilPART 1 — HOUSING AS ARCHITECTURE FOR ALLChapter 1. Toward a Democratic Architecture: Norwegian Experiments in TimberMaryia RusakChapter 2. Assembling a Home: Politics, Trauma, and the Finnish Export of Prefabricated HomesMia Åkerfelt, Tzafrir Fainholtz, and Anna WilczyńskaChapter 3. Prefabricating a Nation: The Neighborhood of Ramat HaNasi in Bat Yam, Israel, by Architect Yitzhaq PerlsteinDaphna Levine and Liat Savin Ben ShoshanChapter 4. The Reconstruction of Post-Earthquake Skopje: An International Collection of Prefabricated Houses in the Cold War EraTamara Bjažić KlarinPART 2 — CONVENTIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL IN NEW NEIGHBORHOODSChapter 5. Another Slab, Sheet, and Brick in the Wall: The Surge of Prefabrication in Israeli Housing, 1960–1980Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler and Yael AllweilChapter 6. Massive Blocks for Soviet Mass Housing: Standardization and Prefabrication in the Soviet UnionAngelo BertolazziChapter 7. Thamesmead: Prefabrication between Utopia and DystopiaAlberto FranchiniPART 3 — EXHIBITIONS AND PROTOTYPES: ARCHITECTURAL MEDIATION THROUGH PREFABRICATIONChapter 8. Halls, “Huts,” and Houses: Large Exhibitions, Prefabrication, and HousingRegine HessChapter 9. The Milan Triennale Exhibitions and the Debate on Prefabrication in Postwar ItalyIlaria Giannetti and Stefania MornatiChapter 10. The Living Cell Typology: Exploring Le Corbusier’s Vision through His Cabanon de vacancesMaria TassopoulouAfterword: How to Build? On the Handling of Existing and Newly Constructed BuildingsSilke LangenbergReferencesContributorsIndexHow conventional and experimental prototypes and series created an architecture for allMass housing and prefabrication shaped global modernist architecture like no other aspect of industrialised construction. This book offers a comprehensive exploration of how both conventional and experimental prototypes and series gave rise to an architecture for all and responded to crises, nation-building, and housing shortages within the context of transnational and regional research.The book’s contributions explore partially unearthed empirical ground, such as cases from Finland and Sweden, while others offer a fresh interpretation of prefabrication’s role in the history of global architecture, notably in the USSR and Italy. The chapters' topics encompass colonial expansion, class, international collaboration, and the achievements and setbacks of industrialised design. The authors scrutinise the cultural impact of mass housing and prefabrication, tracing this influence through exhibitions, memory culture, and typologies, ultimately concluding with an outlook on the preservation and repair of structures and their adaptation for the future.Mass housing and prefabrication shaped global modernist architecture like no other aspect of industrialised construction. This book offers a comprehensive exploration of how both conventional and experimental prototypes and series gave rise to an architecture for all and responded to crises, nation-building, and housing shortages within the context of transnational and regional research.The book’s contributions explore partially unearthed empirical ground, such as cases from Finland and Sweden, while others offer a fresh interpretation of prefabrication’s role in the history of global architecture, notably in the USSR and Italy. The chapters' topics encompass colonial expansion, class, international collaboration, and the achievements and setbacks of industrialised design. The authors scrutinise the cultural impact of mass housing and prefabrication, tracing this influence through exhibitions, memory culture, and typologies, ultimately concluding with an outlook on the preservation and repair of structures and their adaptation for the future.