The prefab 100K House designed by Interface Studio: Principal Brian Phillips says. "Just a small piece of construction is about construction. The other pieces are about politics and labor and money and environmental concerns."

Inga Saffron profiles four groundbreaking Philly architecture firms, showing a common thread shared by KieranTimberlake, Erdy McHenry, Onion Flats, and Interface Studio Architects:  “architects who do not blush in saying that what they’re doing is socially important work.”

“They’re not the sort of architects you go to when you want just another pretty building… instead they dream of making buildings that can go up in weeks instead of months, that are manufactured rather than constructed, that penny-pinch on energy, and can be tossed into the recycling bin when the world grows tired of them.”