Home Delivery: Fabricating for the Modern Dwelling
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2008. Hardcover. BW-photographic and cardboard covers with white lettering. 247 pp. BW and color illustrations. VG. Item #171683
ISBN: 9780870707339
As the world’s population swells and the need for sustainable ways of living grows ever more urgent and obvious, prefabricated architecture has taken center stage. Even before our current predicaments, the mass-produced, factory-made home had a distinguished history, having served as a vital precept in the development of Modern architecture. Today, with the digital revolution reorganizing the relationship between drafting board and factory, it continues to spur innovative manufacturing and design, and its potential has clearly not yet come to fruition. Home Delivery traces the history of prefabrication in architecture, from its early roots in colonial cottages though the work of such figures as Jean Prouvé and Buckminster Fuller, and mass-produced variants such as the Lustron house, to a group of full-scale contemporary houses commissioned specifically for the MoMA exhibition that this book accompanies. -Amazon.
OCLC: 183263656
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