Comments on: PREFAB FRIDAY: Interview with JENNIFER SIEGAL

By: Inhabitat » PREFAB-IN-PROGRESS: OMD’s Country School Expansion

Inhabitat » PREFAB-IN-PROGRESS: OMD’s Country School Expansion — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:00:51 +0000

[...] latest cutting-edge prefab design from Jennifer Siegal’s Office of Mobile Design is the expansion of Valley Village, California’s Country School, [...]

By: Inhabitat » THE STARS OF SUSTAINABILITY AT Symposium C6 in Chicago

Inhabitat » THE STARS OF SUSTAINABILITY AT Symposium C6 in Chicago — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:20:11 +0000

[...] Jeremijenko (artist and engineer), Bruce Mau (the man behind the Massive Change exhibition), Jennifer Siegal (our favorite prefab pioneer), and Lucy Orta (socially-conscious artist and designer). The caliber [...]

By: Inhabitat » NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS from Jennifer Siegal

Inhabitat » NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS from Jennifer Siegal — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 19:26:47 +0000

[...] JENNIFER SIEGAL, Office of Mobile Design My resolution for ‘007 is to look much farther ahead – I am taking a great leap forward and looking 100 years into the future. My firm Office of Mobile Design, along with Roland Ritter, Paulette Singley, Nick Pisca, Emily White and students from USC and Woodbury recently competed in The History Channel’s competition to envision our city of the future. This is our team’s statement and what I see for the future. [...]

By: David Hart

David Hart — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:49:30 +0000

First, I applaud Ms. Siegal for her imagination and commitment to Green Design the execution of her pre-fab design theories. But Ms. Siegel architectural SQUARE BOX style is, I guess, an outcropping of Modernism of the 21st Century. Unfortunately her model is in Venice, California ( a community I lived in for the past 20 years but the influx of this style of architecture is destroying the character of this community. Although Venice is more know for the craziness of the Boardwalk, it is at it’s heart a Craftsman style bungalow community originated by Abbot Kinney at the turn of the 20th Century. With the adjunct of the “MacMansion Theory” of demolishing older BUNGALOWS in favor of BIG BOX 3 STORY Behemoths, the true flavor of this wonderful neighborhood is being eroded. I have nothing against PRE-FAB, in fact many of the best styled 1900-1935 Bungalows are PRE-FAB (designed, cut, labeled, boxed and shipped to their homesites for on-site construction). I encourage Ms. Siegal to explore this truly American style of design and learn to incorporate this design style so prevelent in her very own backyard into Modular/Pre-fab. Although they are too small for long term living, the “Katrina Cottages”, are a style of prefab that still maintain an authentic period style. There are true prefab homes that are historically accurate styles of housing that are available today and can be “Green” building also. Please continue to explore alternatives to Modernism- even the great FLW explored the the ideas of modular design and repeatable motifs.

By: Bangkokwalk Blog » Blog Archive » Green prefab construction

Bangkokwalk Blog » Blog Archive » Green prefab construction — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:35:28 +0000

[...] Jennifer Siegal, an architect from Office of Modern Design, has presented some of her prefab solutions which have become widely recognized around Western U.S. and China. Emily Pillowton from inhabitat.com got a chance to interview with Jennifer Siegal and hear her opinion about prefab building here. Pillowton also interviewed Leo Marmol, a Los Angeles architect and builder who practices prefab construction to reduce building cost and reduce environmental waste. You can watch his interview here. [...]

By: The PrairieMod Squad

The PrairieMod Squad — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 17:38:54 +0000

Great video interviews with Jennifer Siegel and Leo Marmol! We’re so glad that you were able to speak with them. This is a wonderful compliment to our podcast interviews from Dwell on Design that we did with Alan Hess, Julius Shulman and Editor-in-Chief Sam Graw.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:56:41 +0000

That was a great interview–it really provided some insight into green architecture that i had not considered in the past. Good job Jennifer, and nice interview Emily.