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  • refabricating ARCHITECTURE: How Manufacturing Methodologies are Poised to Transform Building Construction

    refabricating ARCHITECTURE by Kieran, Stephen; Timberlake, James;

    How Manufacturing Methodologies are Poised to Transform Building Construction

    Series: P/L CUSTOM SCORING SURVEY;

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    • Publisher McGraw Hill
    • Date of Publication 16 December 2003

    • ISBN 9780071433211
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages192 pages
    • Size 226x149x14 mm
    • Weight 263 g
    • Language English
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    An approach that integrates technology, materials, and production methods to improve quality while saving time and money.

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    Preoccupation with image and a failure to look at process has led entire generations of architects to overlook transfer technologies and transfer processes. Kieran and Timberlake argue that the time has come to re-evaluate and update the basic design and construction methods that have constrained the building industry throughout its history. They skillfully demonstrate that contemporary architectural construction is a linear 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 intelligence and nonhierarchical production structures. Those industries have proven to be progressively economic, efficient, and they yield a higher quality product 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 product engineer, and the process engineer, all using the tools of present information science as the central enabler.

    The new architecture will not be about style, but rather about substance -- about the very methods and processes that underlie making.

    Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality,  authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.




    Preoccupation with image and a failure to look at process has led entire generations of architects to overlook transfer technologies and transfer processes. Kieran and Timberlake argue that the time has come to re-evaluate and update the basic design and construction methods that have constrained the building industry throughout its history. They skillfully demonstrate that contemporary architectural construction is a linear 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 intelligence and nonhierarchical production structures. Those industries have proven to be progressively economic, efficient, and they yield a higher quality product 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 product engineer, and the process engineer, all using the tools of present information science as the central enabler.

    The new architecture will not be about style, but rather about substance -- about the very methods and processes that underlie making.

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    Table of Contents:

    Chapter 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

    When

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