The National Building Museum presented House & Home featuring a peek into life in a Lazor Office FlatPak project. The exhibit showed a wide range of stories about the American home, both historical and contemporary. A two-screen film displayed a film showing how Tom and Rodney live in their FlatPak.
This diverse collection of material illustrates how the prefabricated house has been, and continues to be, not only a reflection on the house as a replicable object of design but also a critical agent in the discourse of sustainability, architectural invention, and new material and formal research.
Fabricating the Modern Dwelling exhibition. The short video playfully presents the process of how the prefabricated parts of FlatPak homes come together to create inviting and customizable architecture.
Cooper Hewitt National Design Triennial: FlatPak
2007
Charlie Lazor's FlatPak House was chosen as one of the best American designs from the preceding three years and showcased as part of the Design Life Now: National Design Triennial show at Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum
Lazor Office presented the FlatPak series for the Walker Arts Center exhibition Some Assembly Required: Contemporary Prefabricated Houses.
Workspheres examines the balance between work and life, and the important role designers play in devising effective solutions for our ever-changing work paradigms.