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Summary
Summary
As the world'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.
Author Notes
Barry Bergdoll is Chief Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Columbia University.
Ken Tadashi Oshima and Rasmus Wærn contribute on prefabricated housing in Japan and Scandinavia.
Reviews 1
Choice Review
Bergdoll and Christensen (both, MoMA) produced this impressive catalogue as an accompaniment to the 2008 MoMA exhibition Home Delivery. The strongest section is the chronological look at the history of prefabricated houses, with 58 well-illustrated, concise examples from around the world. These entries showcase the tremendous diversity of materials, styles, architectural philosophies, and motivations within the prefab movement. For the five projects built specifically for the exhibition, the language is markedly less objective; indeed the entries sound like promotional pieces rather than critical analyses. The two case study essays on prefabrication in Scandinavia and Japan, while interesting, seem a bit out of place given the expansive scope of the exhibition. No other publication has covered the topic this widely; most simply address the practical aspects of prefab design or the work of a particular architect. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty/researchers. L. M. Bliss San Diego State University
