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Prefabs : a history of the UK temporary housing programme
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ISBN: 0419188002 Year: 1995 Publisher: London E and FN Spon


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Prefab Houses
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ISBN: 9789460650536 9460650538 Year: 2011 Publisher: Antwerp Booqs

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The designs created a few years ago for non-specific, experimental prefabricated houses have made way for today's functional residences, which are more practical and respectful of the environment. This new volume displays the many uses and applications of this fascinating architectural specialty.

Eichler homes : design for living
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ISBN: 0811808467 Year: 1995 Publisher: San Francisco (Calif.): Chronicle books

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Debonair gentleman, devoted husband, and ambitious businessman, Joseph Eichler began Eichler Homes with no previous design experience, only a love of contemporary architecture. Already in his late forties, he was able to turn his small firm into one of the most prodigious post-World War II building companies in America. With the help of architect Bob Anshen, Eichler found a way to mass-produce affordable, practical homes with a designer feel. Based on numerous models, each under $10,000, the homes began to sell wildly in Northern California. As the demand grew, so did the houses, and soon they included four bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a family room, as well as Eichler's signature glass walls, post-and-beam structures, and front door atriums. With over 100 color and black-and-white photographs of the various models and essays by architectural expert Sally Woodbridge and Joe Eichler's son, Ned, Eichler Homes paints the poignant picture of an extraordinary businessman, a father-son relationship unfortunately marred by company politics, and the rise and fall of a unique postwar business that continues to inspire architects and designers everywhere.

The dream of the factory-made house : Walter Gropius and Konrad Wachsmann
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ISBN: 0262081407 0262368013 9780262368018 9780262081405 Year: 1984 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.): MIT press


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Pre-Fab Living
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ISBN: 9780500343487 0500343489 Year: 2021 Publisher: London : Thames & Hudson,

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Efficient and inexpensive to produce, pre-fabricated homes are an ideal solution to the financial and environmental costs facing the modern homeowner. Their extremely versatile format also makes them adaptable to all kinds of locations, be it a secluded off-the-grid setting or a dense urban area. This survey of the world's most innovative pre-fab houses explores the full range of possibilities, suitable for anyone interested in clever and creative home-building solutions--no architectural degree required. From carbon-neutral houses to plug-and-play dwellings and converted shipping containers, each chapter explores the varied and exciting ways that people are using pre-fabricated technology to address contemporary challenges. Richly illustrated with photographs and drawings, featuring projects selected by a longtime expert in pre-fab architecture, Pre-Fab Living presents factory-made houses in a new light. Whether designing on a tight budget, crafting something self-sustaining, or simply looking for new spatial ideas, architects, designers, and home builders alike will find it to be an essential source of inspiration.

Suburban Steel : The Magnificent Failure of the Lustron Corporation, 1945-1951
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ISBN: 0814273300 0814209610 0814252737 Year: 2004 Publisher: Columbus : Ohio State University Press,

ArchiLab's FutureHouse : radical experiments in living space
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ISBN: 0500283575 Year: 2002 Publisher: London ; New York, NY : Thames & Hudson,

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As digital technologies insinuate themselves into every aspect of our lives, there is an urgent need to address our most private realm, where we surround ourselves with families, friends and prized possessions. Until now, there have been few new suggestions as to how we can design to accomodate even de most basic house's multifarious functions. Futurehouse tackles the problem head-on and will lead to a new generation of houses for people from all walks of life. Digital technology and the internet may have changed our lifestyles over the last decade, but so far they have had very little impact on our dwellings. Looking to the most innovative talents from around the world, Futurehouse presents ninety private and community housing projects that challenge the accepted norms of our living spaces and offer a dazzling array of ingenious solutions to meet the widely changing needs and desires of our global society. Against the background of globalization and urbanization, these designers - most of whome were raised and educated at the dawn of the digital age - confront such issues as individualizing collective housing and spatial multigenerational flexibility, radically reimagining how we can - could - live.


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Industrialized building systems for housing : a compendium based on Industrialized building MIT special summer session, August 18-29, 1969, and Systems building and industrialization for new communities, MIT special summer session, June 16-20, 1970
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ISBN: 0262040344 9780262040341 Year: 1971 Publisher: Cambridge : London : MIT Press,


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Handbook of housing systems for designers and developers
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ISBN: 0442218206 9780442218201 Year: 1974 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Van Nostrand Reinhold

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