La casa unifamiliare prefabbricata alla Triennale di Milano

The prebuilt single-family house is investigated start-ing from the Triennale di Milano’s privileged observatory which, in over fifty years, has made an important contribution to the national debate on building prefabrication. Thanks to the setting up of materials and build-ing systems’ exhibitions and above all the realization of experimental houses’ prototypes, the single-family prefabrication has been expressed in the social housing (Eighth, 1948), in the house for leisure (Fifth 1933, Tenth 1954, Thirteenth 1964) and in the emergency house and nomadic lifestyles housing (Seventeenth 1988). The re-search, conducted on archival records and specialized magazines, registered a progressive shift from the disciplinary sphere of architecture to the more specific one of design. Moreover, during the Seventeenth edition, the new needs of living in the contemporary city have been addressed. After twenty years, in the beginning of a new century, the exhibition Casa per tutti. Abitare la città globale (2008) has relaunched the issue of prefabrication considered as a tool capable to give an answer to the millions of people who today live in the metropolis in situations of social marginality.