Prefabrication and standardized, industrially produced housing were the accepted solution for these social problems.

WSJ: Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling, Architect and Teacher, at the Yale Center for British Art | Postmodernism's Pivotal Figure | By Ada Louise Huxtable

The Stroppiana brothers' intuition that prefabrication would produce better tracks was the starting-point.

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The trick, if you can call it that, lies in the prefabrication of steel-and-concrete blocks that can be hoisted into position, just as bricks form a wall.

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Stirling soon saw the unreality of these schemes, perhaps because he grew up in Liverpool where a lot of reality was on view and he was never a member of the architectural elite for whom prefabrication was one of modernism's most cherished illusions.

WSJ: Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling, Architect and Teacher, at the Yale Center for British Art | Postmodernism's Pivotal Figure | By Ada Louise Huxtable