Organized by Minneapolis' Walker Art Center and now on view at the MOCA Pacific Design Center, Some Assembly Required: Contemporary Prefabricated Houses is an ideal traveling exhibition; the houses represented are all intended to fit on the back of a truck. A tantalizing array of material samples, scale models, and site photographs illustrate prefab houses designed over the past five years by eight international firms. An elegant, light-filled room from Lazor Office's FlatPak House is even fully assembled in the PDC lobby. Charlie Lazor's description of his design perfectly inverts the former stigma attached to the prefab or manufactured home: Lazor calls his work "manufactured architecture."

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