Refabricating Architecture: How Manufacturing Methodologies Are Poised to Transform Building Construction (Paperback)

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