Description: About this productProduct InformationAn approach that integrates technology, materials, and production methods to improve quality while saving time and money.Product IdentifiersPublisherMcgraw-Hill EducationISBN-10007143321xISBN-139780071433211eBay Product ID (ePID)20038208359Product Key FeaturesBook TitleRefabricating ARCHITECTURE : How Manufacturing Methodologies Are Poised to Transform Building ConstructionAuthorJames Timberlake, Stephen KieranFormatTrade PaperbackLanguageEnglishTopicConstruction / General, Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, Social Aspects, Reference, General, ManufacturingPublication Year2003GenreTechnology & Engineering, ArchitectureNumber of Pages192 PagesDimensionsItem Length8.9inItem Height0.6inItem Width5.9inItem Weight9.3 OzAdditional Product FeaturesLc Classification NumberNa2750ReviewsFew architects have considered building construction...as carefully and insightfully...opportunity to improve...quality and speed of construction and design., Excerpts from Get Smart section of magazine by Barbara Flanagan Implacable sculpture made by ancient methods is no way to build now, say architects Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake...the partners claim that a new industrial revolution ought to transform the way buildings are planned, designed, constructed, and operated. In short, they want to redesign design. Why do ships, cars, planes, and spaceships keep getting better, while buildings don't budge? Part of the problem is that architects don't fully exploit "transfer technologies" -- that is they don't mine fields outside their niche. To speed the progress, Kieran Timberlake tries to turn down projects with "obvious" solutions and has, for the past two years, run a tiny inhouse think tank for nonapplied research... SmartWrap, exhibited last fall at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, is one fruit of the 55-person firm's collaboration with students and with manufacturers such as DuPont. The project, resembling gift-wrapped scaffolding, showcased a "first-generation prototype" of a potential building material that absorbs energy and then uses it to heat, cool, light, decorate, and communicate. ... ...the firm's proudest achievement is the new addition to Penn's engineering school. Their plot to undermine architecture emerges in their new book refabricating Architecture., By using thoughtfully designed elements...buildings can be "produced" in less time and at less cost while remaining true to good design and the needs of the space.Table of ContentChapter 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 WhenCopyright Date2004Target AudienceTradeLccn2003-062735Dewey Decimal720Dewey Edition22IllustratedYes
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Book Title: Refabricating ARCHITECTURE : How Manufacturing Methodologies Are Poised to Transform Building Construction
Item Length: 8.9in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 5.9in
Author: James Timberlake, Stephen Kieran
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Construction / General, Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, Social Aspects, Reference, General, Manufacturing
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Education
Publication Year: 2003
Genre: Technology & Engineering, Architecture
Item Weight: 9.3 Oz
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
