Aitchison, Mathew, author.

Prefab houses and the future of building : product to process / Mathew Aitchison, Toktam Bashirzadeh Tabrizi, Anne Beim, Rachel Couper, Robert Doe, Dan Engström, Ivana Kuzmanovska, Helena Lidelöw, Duncan Maxwell, John Macarthur, Jonathan Nelson, Masa Noguchi, Marc Norman, Martin Rudberg, Ivan Rupnik, Ryan Smith, Lars Stehn, Jose Torero Cullen.

London : Lund Humphries, 2018.
©2018

167 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

As we stand on the cusp of a fundamental restructuring of the housing and building industries, this book provides a timely overview of prefabricated and modular housing. The idea of prefabricated and modular housing is not a new one: since the 19th century, designers, inventors, engineers, builders, developers, and entrepreneurs have all been fascinated by the idea of the factory-built home. But the current international housing shortages and affordability crises have given a new urgency to the need to transform building construction in the 21st century. Richly illustrated and drawing on historical examples and contemporary design studies, the book takes the reader through the history, theory and design of the prefab, leading up to a discussion of contemporary problems and opportunities.

9781848222182 (hardcover)
1848222181 (hardcover)

Prefabricated houses Design and construction.
Prefabricated houses History.
Prefabricated houses.
Prefabricerade hus historia.

History.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 302443
Cote: BIB 248657
Statut: Disponible