Immediately next-door to the museum, on a vacant lot that is the site of a future skyscraper being designed by Jean Nouvel, are five full-size model houses commissioned especially for the exhibition. Don't look for Nouvel or Richard Rogers, though. After considering some 500 firms, the museum chose younger, lesser-known architects, and the range of solutions demonstrates both a sense of enthusiasm and a variety of novel prefabrication technologies. Among these are computer design and digital fabrication, in which the architect's computer is directly linked to an automated production machine such as a laser cutter. Both techniques figured in the house by Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas Gauthier (foreground right), a version of a summerhouse they have built in Australia. The rather crudely built structure looks out of place here—or, I suspect, anywhere.