refabricating ARCHITECTURE

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Chapter 1: The Process Engineer and the Aesthetics of Architecture

Architecture: Art or Commodity?

The Hand and the Machine

Great Architecture

Equation

Integration – not Segregation

Tools of the Process Engineer

An Example: The Car

Result: Higher Quality

Master Building

Chapter 2: Role Reminders in the New World

Architect

Contractor

Materials Scientist

Product Engineer

Chapter 3: Enabling Systems as Regulatory Structure

Enabling Communications

Information Management/Representation/Organization

Communications Examples

Chapter 4: Processes We Do Not See

Integrated Component Assembly

Modular Assembly

Grand Blocks

Sectioned Assembly

Architecture of the Joint

Chapter 5: Architecture

Lessons of Modernism

Mass Production

Mass Customization

Present Realities

Transfer Processes

Transfer Materials

Chapter 6: Mass Customization of Architecture

Evolution

Building Blocks

Panel Methods

Architecture, Not Building

Case Study 1: Grand Block Method

Case Study 2: Panel Method

Chapter 7: Evolution Not Revolution

Evolutionary Architecture

How

When

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Preoccupation with image and a failure to look at process has led entire generations of architects to overlook transfer technologies and transfer processes. Kieran and Timberlake argue that the time has come to re-evaluate and update the basic design and construction methods that have constrained the building industry throughout its history. They skillfully demonstrate that contemporary architectural construction is a linear process, in both design and construction, where segregation of intelligence and information is the norm. They convince the reader to look at the automobile, shipbuilding, and aerospace industries to learn how to incorporate collective intelligence and nonhierarchical production structures. Those industries have proven to be progressively economic, efficient, and they yield a higher quality product while the production of buildings stagnates in the methods and practices of the nineteenth century. The transfer they envision is the complete integration of design with the craft of assembly supported by the materials scientist, the product engineer, and the process engineer, all using the tools of present information science as the central enabler.

The new architecture will not be about style, but rather about substance -- about the very methods and processes that underlie making.