Manufactured Housing: The TVA Experience

As a necessary adjunct to dam building, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) provided worker housing for its construction camps. To this end, TV A architects created a series of designs for economical, demountable houses, all of which exploited the potential of off-site manufacture in sectional units. This article explores the TV A’s refinement of the design and manufacturing of demountable houses and the ideals that underlay them.