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Instant HouseWould you buy a home that was made in a factory?

Click here to read a slide-show essay about prefab housing. Click here to read a slide-show essay about "Home Delivery," a new exhibition of prefabricated housing at the Museum of Modern Art.

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Witold Rybczynski is Slate's architecture critic. His latest book is My Two Polish Grandfathers: And Other Essays on the Imaginative Life. Follow him on Twitter.
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