Home delivery : fabricating the modern dwelling
"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
Print Book, English, ©2008
Museum of Modern Art : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, New York, ©2008
Exhibition catalogues
247 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
9780870707339, 9783764388621, 0870707337, 3764388625
183263656
able of contents 007 Foreword Glenn D. Lowry 010 Home Delivery: Viscidities of a Modernist Dream from Taylorized Serial Production to Digital Customization Barry Bergdoll 026 Scandinavia: Prefabrication as a Model of Society Rasmus Waern 032 Postulating the Potential of Prefab: The Case of Japan Ken Tadashi Oshima Texts by Peter Christensen unless otherwise noted Projects 038 The Manning Portable Cottage for Emigrants 038 The Balloon Frame 038 Single Pour Concrete House 038 Sears Catalogue Homes 038 American System-Built Houses 038 Maison Dom-ino 038 Erector Set 038 Lincoln Logs (Version 1) 038 Baukasten 038 Dymaxion House 038 Copper Houses 038 LEGO 038 Crystal House 038 Good Housekeeping Stran-Steel Home 038 Jacobs House 038 Quonset Hut 038 Packaged House/General Panel System 038 Yankee Portables 038 Plas-2-Point House 038 Wichita House 038 Unite d'Habitation 038 Khrushchovkas 038 Westchester Two-Bedroom Model Home 038 Maison Tropicale 038 Case Study House No. 8 038 Meudon Houses 038 All-Plastic House 038 Plattenbau 038 Plug-In City 038 Habitat '67 038 Asbestos Cement Housing Module 038 Living Pod 038 Maciunas Prefabricated Building System 038.
"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