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The prefabricated home /

"Most popular housing is to some extent prefabricated and has been for more than a hundred years. This is one of the reasons why it does not really count as architecture." "Architects are good at designing prototypes for prefabricated houses, but bad at following through with volume p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davies, Colin, 1929-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Most popular housing is to some extent prefabricated and has been for more than a hundred years. This is one of the reasons why it does not really count as architecture." "Architects are good at designing prototypes for prefabricated houses, but bad at following through with volume production. If they want to succeed in this field, and make a real difference to most people's most intimate experience of buildings, then they must be prepared to learn from areas of the building industry that they have traditionally shunned, from pattern-book houses to modular hotels, from Portakabins to park homes. This book will be of interest to architects, architecture students and anyone connected with the building industry, but its jargon-free discussion of historical, theoretical and practical questions is designed to appeal to anyone who has ever lived in an ordinary house."--Jacket.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (223 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-213) and index.
ISBN:1861896166
9781861896162
1861892438
9781861892430