'o solo mio

The Swedes, Germans, and Italians (and the Japanese, and the etc.) were country before country was cool, and it's proper to note their contributions to prefab architecture, which came about a decade before popular U.S. designers became serious as a group about modern modular. In Griffner Haus with Mattheo Thun and Partners' 1997 'o solo mio project, we had modular, green (or at least low-consumption), and a wood and glass facade a decade before it became the rage.