The industrialized house with Pablo Saiz

DATE

24.11.2025

Throughout the session, he presented six proposals for understanding and designing contemporary housing from a perspective that combines technology, work organization, and sustainability. The starting point was an essential reflection: the house as a cultural product mediated by technique, capable of responding to the social and economic transformations of each era.

During the lecture, Pablo Saiz reviewed the historical precedents that have shaped the evolution of industrialized housing, from the visionary ideas of Walter Gropius, Jean Prouvé, or Buckminster Fuller to the most recent examples of modular architecture and off-site construction. Through this journey, students were able to understand how industrialization has ceased to be merely a technical matter and has become a true architectural way of thinking, aimed at improving efficiency, reducing environmental impact, and democratizing access to quality housing.

The professor also delved into key concepts such as prefabrication, modular construction, and component-based manufacturing, explaining how the combination of design, technology, and productive organization can generate reproducible, flexible, and sustainable systems. Cases such as Toyota Homes, Casa Garoza, or Cellophane House helped illustrate the relationship between innovation and habitability, and how the use of tools such as BIM or lean production models is transforming the way we build.

The class concluded with an invitation to think of industrialization not only as a construction technique, but as a paradigm shift in the way architecture is conceived. For Pablo Saiz, industrializing housing means integrating organizational intelligence, aesthetic sensitivity, and environmental awareness into a single process. His contribution at MArch offered students a precise and contemporary vision of how the future of architecture depends on designing more efficient, sustainable, and emotionally meaningful housing systems.

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