Refabricating Architecture: How Manufacturing Methodologies are Poised to Transform Building Construction
Stephen Kieran,James Timberlake
Language: English
Published by McGraw-Hill Education, 2003
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175 pages. 188pp b&w illusts. A tight, bright copyPublisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guarant eed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlem ents included with the product.Preoccupation with image and a failure to look at process has led entire generations of architects to ove rlook transfer technologies and transfer processes. Kieran and Timberlake argue that the time has come to re-evaluate and update the basic design and constructi on methods that have constrained the building industry throughout its history. T hey skillfully demonstrate that contemporary architectural construction is a lin ear process, in both design and construction, where segregation of intelligence and information is the norm. They convince the reader to look at the automobile, shipbuilding, and aerospace industries to learn how to incorporate collective i ntelligence and nonhierarchical production structures. Those industries have pro ven to be progressively economic, efficient, and they yield a higher quality pro duct while the production of buildings stagnates in the methods and practices of the nineteenth century. The transfer they envision is the complete integration of design with the craft of assembly supported by the materials scientist, the p roduct engineer, and the process engineer, all using the tools of present inform ation science as the central enabler.The new architecture will not be abo ut style, but rather about substance -- about the very methods and processes tha t underlie making.…
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- Title
- Refabricating Architecture: How Manufacturing Methodologies are Poised to Transform Building Construction
- Author
- Stephen Kieran,James Timberlake
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Education
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 007143321X
- ISBN 13
- 9780071433211
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Dimensions
- 19.7cm x 24.8cm
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- Architecture
* 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
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