Critic Mark Lamster sizes up architect Marlon Blackwell’s PS1200.
For a developer, the Quonset also presents considerable economic advantages. “You get your walls, you get your roof, and you get your exterior waterproof shell all for one cost and all through one building trade,” Kafka says. Unlike shipping containers, another prefabricated industrial product frequently jury-rigged as shelter, Quonsets were created for habitation.
"It’s a way, I think, to make architecture of the highest order that is accessible," says Blackwell of his approach. "It’s a way to engage people from all walks of life in architecture." The design is characteristic of a practice Blackwell calls “ennobling the prosaic” — taking familiar forms from the American landscape and transforming them into something original. “It wouldn’t be enough just to take the vernacular and stop there,” he says. “It’s a way, I think, to make architecture of the highest order that is accessible. It’s a way to engage people from all walks of life in architecture.
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