Image from Le Corbusier's Le Modular
Many architects and  entrepreneurs explored prefabrication at varying scale of componentry  and achieved varying degrees of success. 
Le Corbusier proclaims, in Towards a New Architecture 
“We must create a mass-production spirit. 
The spirit of constructing mass-production houses.
The spirit of living in mass-production houses.
The spirit of conceiving mass-production houses.
If  we eliminate from our hearts and minds all dead concepts in regards to  the house, and look at the question from a critical and objective point  of view, we shall arrive at the House-Machine. (Le Corbusier 1931)
