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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. A very good clean copy. Until recently New Zealanders thought of prefabs as drab, cheap, temporary, poorly designed school classrooms. Prefab houses tended to be thought of as cheap, small, relocatable, standard homes. However, today's prefab home is design rich, high-quality, and readily customised to individual sites and needs. It is likely to be state of the art, an innovative blend of architecture, design, manufacturing and construction. This book documents and contextualises a history of kiwi prefabrication, our prefab architecture, its present state, some prefab characters and characteristics, and emerging and possible prefab futures. The book documents key prefab challenges and accomplishments, and some emerging prefab potentials. For example, the story of IBS, (Industrialised Building Systems) is a story of a NZ project that came close to revolutionising the house building industry in Australasia. By the late Roger Hay, one of the IBS founding team members, it is published in this book for the first time. Essays by international academics Barry Bergdoll, Peggy Deamer and Brenda Vale give a wider context for the discussion the book initiates. Barry Bergdoll, the Philip Johnson Curator in Architecture at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York reflects on the landmark exhibition Home Delivery; Fabricating the Modern Dwelling he curated at MoMA in 2008. Peggy Deamer, a principal of Deamer Architects New York and professor of architecture at Yale University, gives a theoretical context for a contemporary re-evaluation of prefabrication. It rethinks the onsite/offsite opposition between traditional and prefabricated building practices and astutely posits a reversal of some long held prejudices against off site design and fabrication. Professor Brenda Vale of Victoria University of Wellington is an international architect, pioneer researcher, writer and expert in sustainable housing. Her essay contextualises the claims for sustainability of prefab housing, arguing there are relatively small potential contributions towards the design of a sustainable house that prefabricated construction is able to make. Sections of the book written by Pamela Bell (CEO of PrefabNZ) are an augmentation of her original Master's research and make up the body of the text. The first section is a prefab primer; a technical commentary that sets out key prefabrication typologies and clarifies some prefab language. Essays by architect and senior lecturer - architecture at Victoria University of Wellington, Mark Southcombe explores Digitally Fabricated Futures.

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 292 pages. 9.19x6.13x0.94 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. Maibritt Pedersen Zari is a Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Architecture and Interior Architecture in the School of Architecture at Victoria University, New Zealand. Peter Connolly is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture in the School o.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The notion of ecology has become central to contemporary design discourse. This reflects contemporary concerns for our planet and a new understanding of the primary entanglement of the human species with the rest of the world.The use of the term 'ecology' with design tends to refer to how to integrate ecologies into design and cities and be understood in a biologically-scientific and technical sense. In practice, this scientific-technical knowledge tends to be only loosely employed. The notion of ecology is also often used metaphorically in relation to the social use of space and cities. This book argues that what it calls the 'biological' and 'social' senses of ecology are both important and require distinctly different types of knowledge and practice. It proposes that science needs to be taken much more seriously in 'biological ecologies', and that 'social ecologies' can now be understood non-metaphorically as assemblages. Furthermore, this book argues that design practice itself can be understood much more rigorously, productively and relevantly if understood ecologically. The plural term 'ecologies design' refers to these three types of ecological design. This book is unique in bringing these three perspectives on ecological design together in one place. It is significant in proposing that a strong sense of ecologies design practice will only follow from the interconnection of these three types of practice.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 272 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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