Refabricating architecture: how manufacturing methodologies are poised to transform building construction

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"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"--Viewed on Amazon.com 6/7/2016.;Argument : The process engineer and the aesthetics of architecture : Architecture: art or commodity ; The hand and the machine ; The law of economy ; A new client mandate ; Integration, not segregation ; Tools of the process engineer ; An example: the car ; Results: higher quality, more scope and features, less time, lower cost ; Master building -- Role reminders in the new world : The architect: master builder ; The material scientist: purpose, not style ; The product engineer: repackaging the parts of architecture ; The contractor: resurrecting the craft of assembly -- Enabling systems as regulatory structure : Enabling communications ; Representation versus simulation ; Design tools -- Processes we do not see : Gravity, evolution, economics ; Shipbuilding ; Airplanes ; Cars ; The architecture of the joint -- Architecture : A century of failure ; The century of the realizable dream ; Pure creation of collective intelligence ; Materiality into architecture ; Unions ; Increasing complexity -- Mass customization of architecture : From Dell with love ; Duke doors ; Assa Abloy doors ; Levine wall ; Modular vanity ; Pierson vanity ; Cornell bathroom ; Pierson modular building -- Evolution, not revolution : Fabrication, not construction -- Our fabrication. 1. The process engineer and the aesthetics of architecture -- 2. Role reminders in the new world -- 3. Enabling systems as regulatory structure -- 4. Processes we do not see -- 5. Architecture -- 6. Mass customization of architecture -- 7. Evolution, not revolution. Argument : The process engineer and the aesthetics of architecture : Architecture: art or commodity The hand and the machine The law of economy A new client mandate Integration, not segregation Tools of the process engineer An example: the car Results: higher quality, more scope and features, less time, lower cost Master building -- Role reminders in the new world : The architect: master builder The material scientist: purpose, not style The product engineer: repackaging the parts of architecture The contractor: resurrecting the craft of assembly -- Enabling systems as regulatory structure : Enabling communications Representation versus simulation Design tools -- Processes we do not see : Gravity, evolution, economics Shipbuilding Airplanes Cars The architecture of the joint -- Architecture : A century of failure The century of the realizable dream Pure creation of collective intelligence Materiality into architecture Unions Increasing complexity -- Mass customization of architecture : From Dell with love Duke doors Assa Abloy doors Levine wall Modular vanity Pierson vanity Cornell bathroom Pierson modular building -- Evolution, not revolution : Fabrication, not construction -- Our fabrication.