refabricating ARCHITECTURE How Manufacturing Methodologies are Poised to Transform Building Construction

by Kieran, Stephen; Timberlake, James

• ISBN13: 9780071433211
• ISBN10: 007143321X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-02
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

This thought-provoking book presents a compelling argument for moving architecture from a part-by-part, linear approach to an integrated one that brings together technology, materials, and production methods. Using examples from several industries that have successfully made the change to an integrated component approach, these visionary authors lay the groundwork for a dramatic and much-needed change in the building industry. * Packed with graphics that illustrate how and why change is needed * Examples from the auto, shipbuilding, and aerospace industries illustrating how to improve quality while saving time and money * Redefines the roles of architects, materials scientists, process engineers, and contractors

Author Biography

In 1984 Stephen Kieran, FAIA, FAAR, and James Timberlake, FAIA, FAAR founded the firm KieranTimberlake Associates LLP, located in Philadelphia. KieranTimberlake Associates LLP has been awarded 40 design awards during the past 20 years, including two Gold Medals and two Distinguished Building Awards from the American Institute of Architects.

Stephen Kieran received his Bachelor's degree from Yale University, magna cum laude, and his Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.

James Timberlake received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Detroit, with honors, and his Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, with honors.

Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake were recipients of the Rome Prize (in 1981 and 1983 respectively) from the American Academy in Rome, and have served as Eero Saarinen Distinguished Professor of Design at Yale University. They were awarded the inaugural 2001 Benjamin Latrobe Fellowship for architectural design research by the AIA College of Fellows. They are also the Max Fisher Chair recipients at the University of Michigan for Spring 2004. They currently serve as Adjunct Professors at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design where they lead a graduate research studio that explores the emerging interface between architecture as high art and the integration of developing technologies in materials science and product engineering.

They lecture internationally about the processes and methods that underlie transfer technologies and what has been their involvement in this new architecture. Their firm's work has been published and featured in Manual, the Architecture of KieranTimberlake (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002); and numerous publications including Architectural Record, Cambridge University's Architectural Research Quarterly, Interiors, Interior Design, WIRED Magazine, and The New York Times.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Process Engineer and the Aesthetics of Architecture

Architecture: Art or Commodity?

The Hand and the Machine

Great Architecture

Equation

Integration – not Segregation

Tools of the Process Engineer

An Example: The Car

Result: Higher Quality

Master Building

Chapter 2: Role Reminders in the New World

Architect

Contractor

Materials Scientist

Product Engineer

Chapter 3: Enabling Systems as Regulatory Structure

Enabling Communications

Information Management/Representation/Organization

Communications Examples

Chapter 4: Processes We Do Not See

Integrated Component Assembly

Modular Assembly

Grand Blocks

Sectioned Assembly

Architecture of the Joint

Chapter 5: Architecture

Lessons of Modernism

Mass Production

Mass Customization

Present Realities

Transfer Processes

Transfer Materials

Chapter 6: Mass Customization of Architecture

Evolution

Building Blocks

Panel Methods

Architecture, Not Building

Case Study 1: Grand Block Method

Case Study 2: Panel Method

Chapter 7: Evolution Not Revolution

Evolutionary Architecture

How

When