Prefabricated Home
Colin Davies
The Prefabricated Home examines how the relationship between architecture and industrialized building has now become an urgent issue for architects. Colin Davies traces the history of prefabricated buildings from small-scale ?prefabs? to the precast concrete mass housing of the 1960s to the present-day revival of interest in ?volumetric? modular buildings, and assesses their architectural implications. He looks at what is happening today in factories and on building sites worldwide, and contrasts the aesthetic concerns of architects with the economic ones of industrialized building manufacturers. He argues that the involvement of architects in industrialized building can produce an exciting new type of architecture that is humane, liberating and environmentally friendly.

Price: Bht 1,495.00