Refabricating Architecture: How Manufacturing Methodologies are Poised to Transform Building Construction
Editorial Reviews
I.D. Magazine, January/February, 2004
ancient methods...no way to build now...new industrial revolution ought to transform...way buildings are planned, designed, constructed...operated.
Review
Few architects have considered building construction...as carefully and insightfully...opportunity to improve...quality and speed of construction and design.
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.
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. Refabricating Architecture: How Manufacturing Methodologies are Poised to Transform Building Construction
Refabricating Architecture: How Manufacturing Methodologies are Poised to Transform Building Construction,Stephen Kieran,James Timberlake,Stephen Kieran,James Timberlake,McGraw-Hill Professional,007143321X,Architecture,Building,Building Construction,Construction - General,General,Manufacturing,Manufacturing processes,Process Engineering,Reference,Research,Technological innovations,Architecture / General
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