As the worlda (TM)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 the drafting board and the factory, it continues to spur innovative manufacturing and imaginative 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 houses from well-known contemporary architects such as Kengo Kuma, Oskar Leo Kaufmann, Richard Horden or Kieran Timberlake.

Catalogue de l'exposition qui s'est tenue en 2008 au MOMA à New-York, ce livre retrace l'histoire de la préfabrication dans l'architecture. Tout, ou presque y est abordé, des débuts avec les maisons coloniales jusqu'aux développements de Thomas Edison, Marcel Breuer, Jean Prouvé ou Buckminster Fuller pour finir par la présentation de propositions contemporaines commandées spécifiquement pour l'exposition.

Pagination : 247 p.

Format : 300 x 250

Année d'édition : 2008

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