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Prefab Architecture: A Guide to Modular Design and Construction

Ryan E. Smith, James Timberlake (Foreword by)
ISBN: 978-0-470-27561-0
Hardcover
400 pages
December 2010
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Foreword: James Timberlake, FAIA vii

Introduction xi

Acknowledgments xv

PART I: CONTEXT 1

Chapter 1 History of Industrialized Building 3

Chapter 2 History of Industrialized Architecture 21

Chapter 3 Environment, Organization, and Technology 47

PART II: APPLICATION 75

Chapter 4 Principles 77

Chapter 5 Fundamentals 99

Chapter 6 Elements 127

Chapter 7 Assembly 181

Chapter 8 Sustainability 217

PART III: CASE STUDIES 249

Chapter 9 Housing 251

Chapter 10 Commercial 295

PART IV: CONCLUSION 333

Chapter 11 Conclusion 335

Endnotes 341

Illustration Credits 353

Index 357

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