@article{Suau_2011, title={Visionary Prefab in the Modern Age: Deconstructing Keaton’s Films}, url={https://docomomojournal.com/index.php/journal/article/view/101}, DOI={10.52200/44.A.P2HWOVDV}, abstractNote={<p>This essay analyses Buster Keaton’s masterpieces: One Week (1920); The Haunted House (1921) and The Electric House (1922). His filmic work reveals the montage of mass housing prefabrication in the Modern Age in the United States: repetition and mechanisation of the building production; generic layouts; and modular like–catalogue constructions. Rather than following a sequential building process, these cases are executed as mere accidents or flaws. Buster Keaton’s films however show ironically a non–standardized architecture. This study analyses and compares Keaton’s film production with Catalog Modern House, a prefab dwelling manufactured and shipped by Sears,Roebuck and Co in the 20th century.</p>}, number={44}, journal={Docomomo Journal}, author={Suau, Cristian}, year={2011}, month={Aug.}, pages={81–85} }