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Prefabricated Home by Colin Davies (2005, Perfect)

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Author: Colin Davies. Format: Paperback. Missing Information?. Release Date: 04/01/2005. EAN: 9781861892430. ISBN-10: 1861892438.

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PublisherReaktion Books, The Limited

ISBN-101861892438

ISBN-139781861892430

eBay Product ID (ePID)44170205

Product Key Features

Number of Pages248 Pages

Publication NamePrefabricated Home

LanguageEnglish

SubjectConstruction / General, Buildings / Residential, Methods & Materials, History / General

Publication Year2005

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaArchitecture, Technology & Engineering

AuthorColin Davies

FormatPerfect

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight14.1 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

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Reviews"An impassioned call to architects to change their attitudes to design processes, manufacturing methods and relationships with clients. . . The Prefabricated Home is a more complex and provocative book than it might at first appear. By turns angry and optimistic, it is both a challenging and enjoyable read."-- Building Design, The Prefabricated Home is a rare thing indeed - an academic but accessible architectural history that's crystal clear about where architects should be paying more attention if they are to continue to be central to building design and offsite methods. . . a revealing, jargon-free and instructive book, "Easy-to-read and provocative . . . the book will be valuable to a wide and diverse audience of general readers, design students, practitioners, and academics . . . Davies achieves such broad appeal by cleverly packaging two narratives into one book. His polemic on modern architecture is embedded inside of a competent short history of western architects'' experimentations with prefabricated single family homes."- Design Issues, Easy-to-read and provocative . . . the book will be valuable to a wide and diverse audience of general readers, design students, practitioners, and academics . . . Davies achieves such broad appeal by cleverly packaging two narratives into one book. His polemic on modern architecture is embedded inside of a competent short history of western architects' experimentations with prefabricated single family homes., . . . easy-to-read and provocative . . will be valuable to a wide and diverse audience of general readers, design students, practitioners, and academics . . . Davies achieves such broad appeal by cleverly packaging two narratives into one book. His polemic on modern architecture is embedded inside of a competent short history of western architects' experimentations with prefabricated single family homes., A modestly titled but densely informative book that could potentially help change the world, for real. . . . He reveals fresh insight on the braoder issues of architecture and the original ideals of the modernists. . . . [Davies] writes with clarity, grace, and an intellectual rigour that is surprisingly free of jargon. The Prefabricated Home is a brilliant and timely book for anyone in the profession., "A modestly titled but densely informative book that could potentially help change the world, for real. . . . He reveals fresh insight on the braoder issues of architecture and the original ideals of the modernists. . . . [Davies] writes with clarity, grace, and an intellectual rigour that is surprisingly free of jargon. The Prefabricated Home is a brilliant and timely book for anyone in the profession."-- Azure , "An incisive, provocative, and well researched polemic." -- Stephen Mullin "Architectural Review" (06/01/2006), "An impassioned call to architects to change their attitudes to design processes, manufacturing methods and relationships with clients. . . The Prefabricated Home is a more complex and provocative book than it might at first appear.By turns angry and optimistic, it is both a challenging and enjoyable read."-- Building Design, "A modestly titled but densely informative book that could potentially help change the world, for real. . . . He reveals fresh insight on the braoder issues of architecture and the original ideals of the modernists. . . . ÝDavies¨ writes with clarity, grace, and an intellectual rigour that is surprisingly free of jargon. The Prefabricated Home is a brilliant and timely book for anyone in the profession." -- Adele Weder "Azure" (01/01/2006), An impassioned call to architects to change their attitudes to design processes, manufacturing methods and relationships with clients. . . The Prefabricated Home is a more complex and provocative book than it might at first appear. By turns angry and optimistic, it is both a challenging and enjoyable read., "A modestly titled but densely informative book that could potentially help change the world, for real. . . . He reveals fresh insight on the braoder issues of architecture and the original ideals of the modernists. . . . [Davies] writes with clarity, grace, and an intellectual rigour that is surprisingly free of jargon. The Prefabricated Home is a brilliant and timely book for anyone in the profession."-- Azure

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal728.3/7/09045

Table Of ContentIntroduction Part I: Histories 1. An architectural history 2. A non-architectural history 3. House of the century: the mobile home Part II: Theories 4. The question of authorship 5. Professionalism and pattern books 6. Down with the system Part III: Practices 7. Ideal homes 8. Little boxes 9. The robot and the carpenter Conclusion References Select Bibliography Acknowledgements Photographic Acknowledgements Index

SynopsisFrom 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 origins of the branded building phenomenon with examples ranging from the Dymaxion bathroom to IKEA's "Bo Klok" house. He also analyzes the use of industrialized buildings worldwide--including McDonald's drive-through restaurants and contrasts the aesthetic concerns of architects against the economic ones of industrialized building manufacturers. Ultimately, The Prefabricated Home proposes a partnership of architects and industrialized building that could potentially produce an exciting new type of humane and eco-conscious architecture., An account of prefabricated architecture around the world, from McDonalds drive-through restaurants to IKEA's flat-pack house. The author outlines the methods and motives behind prefabricated buildings and assesses the implications for modern domestic architecture. He shows that prefabricated building has the potential to produce an exciting new architecture that is humane, liberating and environmentally friendly., 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 origins of the branded building phenomenon with examples ranging from the Dymaxion bathroom to IKEA's "Bo Klok" house. He also analyzes the use of industrialized buildings worldwide--including McDonald's drive-through restaurants and contrasts the aesthetic concerns of architects against the economic ones of industrialized building manufacturers. Ultimately, "The Prefabricated Home proposes a partnership of architects and industrialized building that could potentially produce an exciting new type of humane and eco-conscious architecture.

LC Classification NumberTH4819.P7