Title & Author:

Home delivery : fabricating the modern dwelling / Barry Bergdoll and Peter Christensen ; [edited by Ron Broadhurst].

Publication:

New York : Museum of Modern Art : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, ©2008.

Description:

247 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Home delivery : fabricating the modern dwelling, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, July 20-October 20, 2008"--Title page verso.
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Home delivery : fabricating the modern dwelling, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, July 20-October 20, 2008 ..."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-239) and index.
Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- Introduction / Barry Bergdoll -- Home Delivery : Viscidities of a Modernist Dream from Taylorized Serial Production to Digital Customization / Barry Bergdoll -- Scandinavia : Prefabrication as a Model of Society / Rasmus Wjern -- Postulating the Potential of Prefab : The Case of Japan / Ken Tadashi Oshima -- Projects -- Commissioned Projects.

Summary:

"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 drafting board and factory, it continues to spur innovative manufacturing and 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 Prouve and Buckminster Fuller, and mass-produced variants such as the Lustron house, to a group of full-scale contemporary houses commissioned specifically for the MoMA exhibition that this book accompanies"--Jacket.

ISBN:

9780870707339 (cloth)
0870707337 (cloth)
9783764388621 (hbk.)
3764388625 (hbk.)

Subject:

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Exhibitions.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Buildings, Prefabricated Exhibitions.
Architecture, Domestic Exhibitions.
Architecture, Modern Exhibitions.
Architecture, Domestic 20th century Design and construction Exhibitions.
Prefabricated houses Exhibitions.
Maisons préfabriquées Conception et construction Expositions.
Architecture domestique 20e siècle Conception et construction Expositions.
Architecture 20e siècle Dessins et plans Expositions.
Constructions préfabriquées Expositions.
Architecture, Domestic Design and construction
Architecture, Domestic
Architecture, Modern
Buildings, Prefabricated
Prefabricated houses Designs and plans Exhibitions.
Dwellings Designs and plans Exhibitions.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Designs and plans Exhibitions.
Haus Modulbauweise Vorfertigung Ausstellung New York <NY, 2008>
Modulbauweise Haus Vorfertigung Ausstellung New York <NY, 2008>
Vorfertigung Modulbauweise Haus Ausstellung New York <NY, 2008>

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Bergdoll, Barry.
Christensen, Peter.
Broadhurst, Ron.
Christensen, Peter (Peter Hewitt)
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258482
Call No.: BIB 189282
Status: External loan