Prefabricated Home

Name: Prefabricated Home
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ISBN: 9781861892430

ISBN-10: 1861892438

ISBN-13: 9781861892430

Edition: 2005

Authors: Colin Davies

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From sash windows and ceramic tiles to barracks and warehouses, industrialized building has thrived since the nineteenth century in Europe and America. Yet architects have neglected this area of practical construction in favor of historical, theoretical, and artistic analyses, resulting in the emergence of an influential building industry with architects on the far margins. Colin Davies explores in "The Prefabricated Home how the relationship between architecture and industrialized building has now become an urgent issue for architects. "The Prefabricated Home outlines the methods and motives of prefabricated buildings and assesses their architectural implications. Davies traces the…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Reaktion Books, Limited
Publication date: 6/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.880

Colin Davies is professor at London Metropolitan University and the author of a number of books, including "High Tech Architecture" (1988), "Hopkins: The Work of Michael Hopkins and Partners" (two volumes, 1996-2004), and "Prefabricated Home" (2005).



Introduction



Histories



An architectural history



A non-architectural history



House of the century: the mobile home



Theories



The question of authorship



Professionalism and pattern books



Down with the system



Practices



Ideal homes



Little boxes



The robot and the carpenter


Conclusion


References


Select Bibliography


Acknowledgements


Photographic Acknowledgements


Index