“Casa de Ferro: Ever heard the saying �people who live in the tropics shouldn�t build iron houses�?
Nope? Neither had old Gustav when he came up with the highly impractical Casa de Ferro (Iron House), which he designed as a residence for the governor of the Portugese colony. Unfortunately the prefabricated iron building became (unsurprisingly!) unbearably [...]
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August 19, 2008
Prefab Classic: Casa de Ferro (Iron House) in Tropical Africa
July 31, 2008
Vintage Prefab: Lustron Home-All Steel & Factory Built
“IT ALL STARTED one day in 1946 when Carl Gunnard Strandlund, fifty years old, the $100,000-a-year Vice President and general manager of Chicago Vitreous Enamel Products Co., was doodling on the tablecloth at lunch. He had been talking with officials of Standard Oil (Indiana), who wanted to get Washington’s permission in those material-scarce days to [...]
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