While Levitt and other developers were able to respond to consumer demand with mass-produced housing, war plants were never converted to produce metal house kits.
Modulars, once associated with cheap, mass-produced housing, have gone through many changes since the peak of housing demand a decade ago, when they were largely sought out as the most economical housing available.
What is done, however, is done with the kind of care unknown in mass-produced Soviet housing.
His work is characterised by ingenious open planning, the Great Hall or "sitting hall" with a staircase running up the side that became familiar in mass-produced housing of the 1890s.
In architecture, reacting to both Victorian architectural opulence and increasingly common mass-produced housing, the style incorporated a visible sturdy structure, of clean lines and natural materials.
Culver (2010) argues that Palm Springs architecture became the model for mass-produced suburban housing, especially in the Southwest.
The postwar promise of mass-produced housing was never realized, because steel never quite won over the cowboy contractor with hammer slung at his hip.
His early studies with steel and aluminum products with companies such as DOFASCO and Steclo resulted in prototypes for mass-produced housing.
While Stalin favored inflated, wedding-cake-style architecture to express the state's authority, Khrushchev wanted quantity - especially mass-produced housing, roughly built with large prefabricated panels.
Levittown developed as a major prototype of mass-produced housing.