Home Delivery
Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
1st Edition
Published on 3. July 2008
Book
Hardback
247 pages
978-3-7643-8862-1 (ISBN)
Description
As the world's population swells and the need for sustainable ways of living grows ever more urgent and obvious, prefabricated architecture has taken center stage. Even before our current predicaments, the mass-produced factory-made home had a distinguished history, having served as a vital precept in the development of modern architecture. Today, with the digital revolution reorganizing the relationship between the drafting board and the factory, it continues to spur innovative manufacturing and imaginative design, and its potential has clearly not yet come to fruition. Home Delivery traces the history of prefabrication in architecture, from its early roots in colonial cottages though the work of such figures as Jean Prouvé and Buckminster Fuller, and mass-produced variants such as the Lustron house, to a group of full-scale houses from well-known contemporary architects such as Kengo Kuma, Oskar Leo Kaufmann, Richard Horden or Kieran Timberlake.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
Switzerland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
230
151 farbige Abbildungen, 230 s/w Abbildungen
230 b/w and 151 col. ill.
Dimensions
Height: 28 cm
Width: 24 cm
Weight
1445 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7643-8862-1 (9783764388621)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Barry Bergdoll is Chief Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Columbia University. Ken Tadashi Oshima and Rasmus Wærn contribute on prefabricated housing in Japan and Scandinavia.
Barry Bergdoll ist Leiter und Kurator der Architekturabteilung des Museum of Modern Art in New York sowie Professor für Kunstgeschichte an der Columbia University. Ken Tadashi Oshima und Rasmus Wærn verfassen Beiträge zu Systembauten in Japan und Skandinavien.
Barry Bergdoll ist Leiter und Kurator der Architekturabteilung des Museum of Modern Art in New York sowie Professor für Kunstgeschichte an der Columbia University. Ken Tadashi Oshima und Rasmus Wærn verfassen Beiträge zu Systembauten in Japan und Skandinavien.
Content
table of contents 007 Foreword Glenn D. Lowry 010 Home Delivery: Viscidities of a Modernist Dream from Taylorized Serial Production to Digital Customization Barry Bergdoll 026 Scandinavia: Prefabrication as a Model of Society Rasmus Waern 032 Postulating the Potential of Prefab: The Case of Japan Ken Tadashi Oshima Texts by Peter Christensen unless otherwise noted Projects 038 The Manning Portable Cottage for Emigrants 038 The Balloon Frame 038 Single Pour Concrete House 038 Sears Catalogue Homes 038 American System-Built Houses 038 Maison Dom-ino 038 Erector Set 038 Lincoln Logs (Version 1) 038 Baukasten 038 Dymaxion House 038 Copper Houses 038 LEGO 038 Crystal House 038 Good Housekeeping Stran-Steel Home 038 Jacobs House 038 Quonset Hut 038 Packaged House/General Panel System 038 Yankee Portables 038 Plas-2-Point House 038 Wichita House 038 Unité d'Habitation 038 Khrushchovkas 038 Westchester Two-Bedroom Model Home 038 Maison Tropicale 038 Case Study House No. 8 038 Meudon Houses 038 All-Plastic House 038 Plattenbau 038 Plug-In City 038 Habitat '67 038 Asbestos Cement Housing Module 038 Living Pod 038 Maciunas Prefabricated Building System 038 Stadt Ragnitz 038 Metastadt-Bausystem 038 Stelco Catalogue Housing 038 Futuro House 038 Zip-Up Enclosures No. 1 and 2 038 Moduli 225 038 Oriental Masonic Gardens 038 Nakagin Capsule Tower 038 Ramot Housing 038 Gen-An (Fantasy Villa) 038 Almere House 038 Yacht House 038 Kim House 038 C ontainer Hut/Primitive Huts 038 Great Hanshin Earthquake Community Shelter 038 Touch House 038 Quik House 038 M-House 038 Embryological House 038 Muji House 038 Maquiladora 038 D igitally Fabricated Wall 038 Flatform 038 Vector Wall 038 Water Block House MoMA Commissions 038 micro compact home 038 Digitally Fabricated Housing for New Orleans 038 BURST *.008 038 SYSTE M3 038 Cellophane House 038 Index 038 Chronology 038 Selected Bibliography 038 Acknowledgements 038 Credits 038 Trustees