For the last six years, modular housing has been a research topic at Northeastern UniversityÕs School of Architecture, carried out through a series of research projects, courses and symposia organized by Prof. Ivan Rupnik, in collaboration with a number of faculty, graduate students and experts in the field. Prof. RupnikÕs doctoral work at Harvard University focused on the transfer and translation of instruments of planning and management from industrial engineering to architectural projection during the first half of the twentieth century. Mass. Modular is the most recent volume in this series. Edited by Ivan Rupnik with contributions from Arthur Campbell, Bruno Dariu, Khalil Farhat, Ariella Fishkin, Andrew Giannino-Curtis, Nicole Radice, Charif Tabet, Saurabh Vashist, Jennifer Vasington and Fredrik Viklund.