Author: Robert Ellis ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A History of the Dwelling-house and Its Future
Author: Robert Ellis ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Prefab Housing and the Future of Building
Author: Mathew AitchisonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781848222182
Category : Prefabricated houses
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
As we stand on the cusp of a fundamental restructuring of the housing and building industries, this book provides timely insights into the promise of prefabricated housing. The idea of a more industrialised approach to house building is not a new one: since the 19thcentury, designers, inventors, engineers, builders, developers, and entrepreneurs have all been fascinated by the idea of the factory-built, modular home. But international housing affordability crises, emerging technologies, and concerns for more sustainable building practices have given a new urgency to the need to transform building construction in the 21st century.Richly illustrated and drawing on historical examples and contemporary design studies, the book takes the reader through the foundations of prefab, leading up to a discussion of contemporary problems and opportunities. It includes a broad international survey of leading companies and their products, and draws on research from an international team of experts in the field. This book suggests a future scenario for industrialised house building that will both challenge the existing industry and stimulate the public imagination.
The Journal of Home Economics
Author: Brave New Home
Author: Diana LindPublisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 1541742648
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This smart, provocative look at how the American Dream of single-family homes, white picket fences, and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nightmare explores how new trends in housing can help us live better. Over the past century, American demographics and social norms have shifted dramatically. More people are living alone, marrying later in life, and having smaller families. At the same time, their lifestyles are changing, whether by choice or by force, to become more virtual, more mobile, and less stable. But despite the ways that today's America is different and more diverse, housing still looks stuck in the 1950s. In Brave New Home, Diana Lind shows why a country full of single-family houses is bad for us and our planet, and details the new efforts underway that better reflect the way we live now, to ensure that the way we live next is both less lonely and more affordable. Lind takes readers into the homes and communities that are seeking alternatives to the American norm, from multi-generational living, in-law suites, and co-living to microapartments, tiny houses, and new rural communities. Drawing on Lind's expertise and the stories of Americans caught in or forging their own paths outside of our cookie-cutter housing trap, Brave New Home offers a diagnosis of the current American housing crisis and a radical re-imagining of future possibilities.
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Author: American Academy of Political and Social SciencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
The Craftsman
Author: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Author: The Public School System of San Francisco, California
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Educational surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 1286
Book Description
The Dial
Author: Francis Fisher BrownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Statistics of Land-grant Colleges and Universities
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 1732
Book Description