Isbn: 9783932565021 - Peter Hubner: Building as a Social Process (17 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Peter Hubner began his career as an orthopaedic shoemaker and moved on to cabinet-making before studying architecture. In the 1960s he became a successful designer of prefabricated buildings and sanitary units. This expertise gained him a chair in building construction at Stuttgart University where, in collaboration with fellow professor Peter Sulzer, he undertook a series of experiments that changed the course of his architecture. It began with an elaboration of the Walter Segal building method, but culminated in a student hostel designed, built and lived-in by architectural students at Stuttgart University's Vaihingeh campus. Using student labour and superfluous or recycled materials it was very cheap, but it also reflected the capabilities and aspirations of its owners in a surprising and potent way, imbuing them with confidence. Hubner was struck by the importance of building as a social process, and understood that the mechanised construction he had earlier been involved in had largely taken the soul out of it.As word about the Vaihingen project got about, Hubner received requests for more cheap self-help buildings and discovered a new professional role as facilitator and ringmaster. Unable to predict how these improvised buildings would turn out, he yielded up the aesthetic control of the designer-despot in favour of experiencing the pleasure of human relationships as a project unfolds. Most new buildings are received by their users with comparative indifference, but the self-help projects engender passionate commitment, and it continues long after they are finished. People identify with the spaces they helped to determine, and naturally appropriate them. As a producer of such anarchic work, it is perhaps surprising to discover that Hubner has also long been at the forefront of CAD, but this is a natural development of systematization, for if computers can calculate all the variants and irregularities, we need no longer conform to Ford's production line. Hubner uses three-dimensional programmes which connect design directly with production.His work also responds to Green concerns, not only through the use of recycled and low-energy materials and in avoiding toxicity, but also in passive energy collection. All these issues are explored in the book. Peter Hubner began his career as an orthopaedic shoemaker and moved on to cabinet-making before studying architecture. In the 1960s, he became a successful designer of prefabricated buildings and sanitary units. This book explores various issues. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Condition: New. Peter Hubner began his career as an orthopaedic shoemaker and moved on to cabinet-making before studying architecture. In the 1960s, he became a successful designer of prefabricated buildings and sanitary units. This book explores various issues. Num Pages: 358 pages, 500 colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: ACX; AGB; AMB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 310 x 289 x 31. Weight in Grams: 2708. . 2007. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

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Condition: New. Peter Hubner began his career as an orthopaedic shoemaker and moved on to cabinet-making before studying architecture. In the 1960s, he became a successful designer of prefabricated buildings and sanitary units. This book explores various issues. Num Pages: 358 pages, 500 colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: ACX; AGB; AMB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 310 x 289 x 31. Weight in Grams: 2708. . 2007. Hardcover. . . . . …

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Gebunden. Condition: New. Peter Huebner began his career as an orthopaedic shoemaker andmoved on to cabinetmaking before studying architecture. In the1960s he became a successful designer of prefabricated buildingsand sanitary units. This expertise gained him a chair in buildingconst.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Peter Hübner began his career as an orthopaedic shoemaker andmoved on to cabinetmaking before studying architecture. In the1960s he became a successful designer of prefabricated buildingsand sanitary units. This expertise gained him a chair in buildingconstruction at Stuttgart University where, in collaboration with fellowprofessor Peter Sulzer, he undertook a series of experimentsthat changed the course of his architecture. It began with an elaborationof the Walter Segal building method, but culminated in astudent hostel designed, built and lived-in by architectural studentsat Stuttgart University's Vaihingen campus. Using student labourand superfluous or recycled materials it was very cheap, but it alsoreflected the capabilities and aspirations of its owners in a surprisingand potent way, imbuing them with confidence. Hübner wasstruck by the importance of building as a social process, and understoodthat the mechanised construction he had earlier been involvedin had largely taken the soul out of it.As word about the Vaihingen project got about, Hübner receivedrequests for more cheap self-help buildings, and discovered a newprofessional role as facilitator and ringmaster. Unable to predicthow these improvised buildings would turn out, he yielded up theaesthetic control of the designer-despot in favour of experiencingthe pleasure of human relationships as a project unfolds. Most newbuildings are received by their users with comparative indifference,but the self-help projects engender passionate commitment, andit continues long after they are finished. People identify with thespaces they helped to determine, and naturally appropriate them.As a producer of such anarchic work, it is perhaps surprising todiscover that Hübner has also long been at the forefront of CAD,but this is a natural development of systematisation, for if computerscan calculate all the variants and irregularities, we need nolonger conform to Ford's production line. Hübner uses three-dimensionalprogrammes which connect design directly with production.His work also responds to Green concerns, not onlythrough the use of recycled and low-energy materials and in avoidingtoxicity, but also in passive energy collection. All these issuesare explored in the book.Peter Blundell Jones is Professor of Architecture at the Universityof Sheffield and has already published monographs on HugoHäring (Edition Axel Menges), Hans Scharoun and the new Grazarchitecture. He is a frequent contributor to The Architectural Review,in which he has reported regularly on Hübner's work sincethe early 1980s.…

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Peter Hubner began his career as an orthopaedic shoemaker and moved on to cabinet-making before studying architecture. In the 1960s he became a successful designer of prefabricated buildings and sanitary units. This expertise gained him a chair in building construction at Stuttgart University where, in collaboration with fellow professor Peter Sulzer, he undertook a series of experiments that changed the course of his architecture. It began with an elaboration of the Walter Segal building method, but culminated in a student hostel designed, built and lived-in by architectural students at Stuttgart University's Vaihingeh campus. Using student labour and superfluous or recycled materials it was very cheap, but it also reflected the capabilities and aspirations of its owners in a surprising and potent way, imbuing them with confidence. Hubner was struck by the importance of building as a social process, and understood that the mechanised construction he had earlier been involved in had largely taken the soul out of it.As word about the Vaihingen project got about, Hubner received requests for more cheap self-help buildings and discovered a new professional role as facilitator and ringmaster. Unable to predict how these improvised buildings would turn out, he yielded up the aesthetic control of the designer-despot in favour of experiencing the pleasure of human relationships as a project unfolds. Most new buildings are received by their users with comparative indifference, but the self-help projects engender passionate commitment, and it continues long after they are finished. People identify with the spaces they helped to determine, and naturally appropriate them. As a producer of such anarchic work, it is perhaps surprising to discover that Hubner has also long been at the forefront of CAD, but this is a natural development of systematization, for if computers can calculate all the variants and irregularities, we need no longer conform to Ford's production line. Hubner uses three-dimensional programmes which connect design directly with production.His work also responds to Green concerns, not only through the use of recycled and low-energy materials and in avoiding toxicity, but also in passive energy collection. All these issues are explored in the book. Peter Hubner began his career as an orthopaedic shoemaker and moved on to cabinet-making before studying architecture. In the 1960s, he became a successful designer of prefabricated buildings and sanitary units. This book explores various issues. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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