refabricating ARCHITECTURE

1st Edition
0071709088 · 9780071709088
This thought-provoking book presents a compelling argument for moving architecture from a part-by-part, linear approach to an integrated one that brings together technology, materials, and production methods. Using examples from several industries th… Read More
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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

This thought-provoking book presents a compelling argument for moving architecture from a part-by-part, linear approach to an integrated one that brings together technology, materials, and production methods. Using examples from several industries that have successfully made the change to an integrated component approach, these visionary authors lay the groundwork for a dramatic and much-needed change in the building industry.

* Packed with graphics that illustrate how and why change is needed
* Examples from the auto, shipbuilding, and aerospace industries illustrating how to improve quality while saving time and money
* Redefines the roles of architects, materials scientists, process engineers, and contractors