The Prefabricated Home
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: June 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781861892430
Subjects: Residential buildings, domestic buildings; Architecture; History - General; Methods & Materials; Architecture / Methods & Materials
First sentence: The prefabricated house is an important theme, perhaps the most important, in the conventional, canonical history of twentieth-century architecture.
Description: "Most popular housing is to some extent prefabricated and has been for more than a hundred years. This is one of the reasons why it does not really count as architecture." "Architects are good at designing prototypes for prefabricated houses, but bad at following through with volume production. If they want to succeed in this field, and make a real difference to most people's most intimate experience of buildings, then they must be prepared to learn from areas of the building industry that they have traditionally shunned, from pattern-book houses to modular hotels, from Portakabins to park homes. This book will be of interest to architects, architecture students and anyone connected with the building industry, but its jargon-free discussion of historical, theoretical and practical questions is designed to appeal to anyone who has ever lived in an ordinary house."--BOOK JACKET.