Loblolly House: Elements of a New Architecture + DVD
In this text they follow the conception, fabrication, and rapid assembly of Loblolly House. Located off the coast of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay, Loblolly House consists of 70 percent prefabricated components put together and lifted into place on site in less than six weeks, fulfilling a key dream of modernism: the production of a factory-built architecture that parallels, even rivals, modernity's other industrial products, from cars to airplanes and appliances. --Book News Inc., August 2008A book published by Princeton Architectural Press last month handsomely documents the entire design-build process of the Loblolly House. Aptly subtitled,Elements of a New Architecture, the book guides readers through the individualized elements KieranTimberlake propose as replacement for the sixteen divisions (which organize tens of thousands of building parts) that comprise the Construction Specifications Institute's catalog. By describing residential architecture in this conscientious, elemental manner, the architects remove both the mystery and the utopian from prefab, and this is a good thing. The book never drifts into the realm of idealism. What KieranTimberlake propose is by no means radical, and it can be achieved quite readily (as the book proves) through a systemic realignment of the building process. I dare say this book should be required reading for all architects, contractors, and developers. --Dwell.com, July 2008Recommended for architecture libraries; an essential purchase for any collection already havingRefabricating Architecture.--Library Journal, July 2008