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The success of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, designed and engineered by Frank O. Gehry and inaugurated in 1997, opened the eyes of the world to the plastic possibilities of Free Form Design. That is, on the side of architects and their admiring clients. Some architects draw up complicated but surprising and attractive Free Form Designs and win design competitions. The next step is to involve the manufacturing industry and the contractors in realizing these dreams. According to the author(s), the desire and logic for an adapted Free Form Technology will become became apparent after more designs. At Mick Eekhout’s design & build company Octatube the first experiences with Free Form Designs either failed, were aborted, were a disaster or led to unfortunate events such as the bankruptcy of competing firms who took on the projects without major Free Form Design experience. But Free Form design has matured nowadays. Many lessons can be learned from these early experiments, which is the main reason to share these experiences with readers of this book.

Architectural design --- Data processing. --- Floriade Pavilion --- Guggenheim Museum --- Tel Aviv --- Galleria --- Berlin --- Free Form Design --- Alphen aan den Rijn --- non-orthogonal --- DG Bank --- Malmö --- engineering --- Free Form Technology --- Bilbao --- Rotterdam --- Town Hall --- high rises --- Greenhouse --- Hoofddorp --- Rabin Centre --- Frank O. Gehry

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The text studies how various Western, Japanese, and Chinese businesses struggled with the persistent dilemma in China of how to retain control over corporate hierachies while adapting to dramatic changes in Chinese society, politics and foreign affairs from 1880-1937.

Architecture, Modern. --- Arquitectura --- Diseño de productos --- Metodología --- Product design --- Methodology. --- Philosophy --- Research --- Commercial products --- New products --- Industrial design --- Modern architecture --- Methodology --- Design and construction --- Humanities Methodology --- Business networks --- Industrial management --- Corporations --- Corporations, American --- Corporations, British --- Corporations, Japanese --- History.

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The Delft Prototype is a single apartment from a not yet realized Concept House Urban Villa, which consists of 16 apartments on 4 floors. Both the urban villa and the prototype demonstrate the characteristics of high level industrial production with an extremely low ecological footprint, as well as being energy-positive in use, and both are suitable for multi-storey housing. The research, development, production and built prototype resulted in a unique innovation on the Dutch building market: a sustainable energy-positive apartment system for medium-rise energy-positive housing. This scientific report deals with the history, development and realization process of the prototype up to the completion of the building phase, after which the prototype was furnished and the garden landscaped, culminating with the opening of the prototype in October 2012. The development was initiated by Mick Eekhout’s Chair of Product Development at the TU Delft at the specific request of the building industry and was carried out in close collaboration with a consortium of partners from the SME building supply industry. Innovation continues to progress in these partner industries. The entire project was externally financed for the 8 years of its duration. Apart from initiative and natural project leadership, the innovative contribution of the Chair included the design, coordination and integration of the many components into the single coherent entity of the Concept House ‘Delft’ Prototype.

Sustainable buildings --- Apartment houses --- Design and construction. --- Energy conservation. --- Ecologically sustainable design (Buildings) --- Environmentally sustainable design (Buildings) --- ESD design (Buildings) --- Green building design --- Green design (Buildings) --- Sustainable design (Buildings) --- innovation --- Concept House --- urbanism --- housing --- product development --- TU Delft --- Delft Prototype --- building supply industry

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Industrialized housing has been a common phenomenon in the building industry since the industrial revolution; the casting of iron components enabled Victorian iron casters to prefabricate entire buildings and to export them to all British colonies. It got a second boost from Modernist architects like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Konrad Wachsmann; and a third boost in the US when the soldiers came back from the Second World War in 1945 and wanted to buy a ready-made house.In the later decades of the 20th century composite prototypes were built. Timber frame houses are extremely popular in low density areas worldwide. For densely populated areas housing is now firmly attached to reinforced concrete. The contracting industries have developed efficient building methods for the concrete structures on which separate systems of claddings are fixed to form a house.However, in the coming decades, designers, builders and scientists also have to keep the environment in mind, working with a minimal amount of materials, and for minimizing embodied energy and energy use. In the coming age minimal embodied energy and low ecological footprints are renewed values that will be added to energy-positive housing and that will have an influence on the building technology of the future. This will lead to a reformation of the building vocabulary. Other materials will have to be chosen and developed to function in building elements and components.

Industrialized building. --- Construction industry --- Economic aspects. --- Building industry --- Home building industry --- Building --- Automated building --- Construction, Industrialized --- Industrialized construction --- System building --- Systems building --- Management --- building technology --- building methods --- industrialized housing --- energy-positive housing --- architecture

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The Department of Building Technology at the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft studies and develops cardboard as a potential building material on a comprehensive basis. An exploratory phase from 2003 to 2005 was concluded by an international symposium. This title comprises the report on that symposium.

Lightweight construction. --- Space frame structures --- Building materials. --- Building papers. --- Paperboard. --- Waste paper --- Space structures --- Structures, Space frame --- Architecture --- Building --- Space (Architecture) --- Structural frames --- Construction, Lightweight --- Light construction --- Light weight construction --- Minimum weight construction --- Paper --- Paper recycling --- Recycling (Waste, etc.) --- Cardboard --- Paper board --- Pasteboard --- Pressboard --- Paper products --- Cardboard art --- Cardboard furniture --- Cardboard sculpture --- Paper in building --- Building materials --- Architectural materials --- Building supplies --- Buildings --- Construction materials --- Structural materials --- Materials --- Materials. --- Recycling. --- Recycling --- Carton. --- Cartonnages. --- Construction --- Architecture. --- Matériaux.