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Informationen zum Autor McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide Klappentext Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Preoccupation with image and a failure to look at process has led entire generations of architects to overlook transfer technologies and transfer processes. Kieran and Timberlake argue that the time has come to re-evaluate and update the basic design and construction methods that have constrained the building industry throughout its history. They skillfully demonstrate that contemporary architectural construction is a linear process, in both design and construction, where segregation of intelligence and information is the norm. They convince the reader to look at the automobile, shipbuilding, and aerospace industries to learn how to incorporate collective intelligence and nonhierarchical production structures. Those industries have proven to be progressively economic, efficient, and they yield a higher quality product while the production of buildings stagnates in the methods and practices of the nineteenth century. The transfer they envision is the complete integration of design with the craft of assembly supported by the materials scientist, the product engineer, and the process engineer, all using the tools of present information science as the central enabler. The new architecture will not be about style, but rather about substance -- about the very methods and processes that underlie making. Zusammenfassung An approach that integrates technology! materials! and production methods to improve quality while saving time and money. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: The Process Engineer and the Aesthetics of ArchitectureArchitecture: Art or Commodity?The Hand and the MachineGreat ArchitectureEquationIntegration - not SegregationTools of the Process EngineerAn Example: The CarResult: Higher QualityMaster BuildingChapter 2: Role Reminders in the New WorldArchitectContractorMaterials ScientistProduct EngineerChapter 3: Enabling Systems as Regulatory StructureEnabling CommunicationsInformation Management/Representation/OrganizationCommunications ExamplesChapter 4: Processes We Do Not SeeIntegrated Component AssemblyModular AssemblyGrand BlocksSectioned AssemblyArchitecture of the JointChapter 5: ArchitectureLessons of ModernismMass ProductionMass CustomizationPresent RealitiesTransfer ProcessesTransfer MaterialsChapter 6: Mass Customization of ArchitectureEvolutionBuilding BlocksPanel MethodsArchitecture, Not BuildingCase Study 1: Grand Block MethodCase Study 2: Panel MethodChapter 7: Evolution Not RevolutionEvolutionary ArchitectureHowWhen...
