Components and System: Modular Construction

Design. Structure. New Technologies (Edition Detail)

Gerhald Staib, Dorrhöfer, Rosenthal

Birkhauser, Basel & Boston, 2008

82,00

Construction systems reduced to the smallest possible number of identical elements have long been used by architects to build structures as well as dismantle and change them as quickly, efficiently, and economically as possible. Think of the architecture of the nomads, the Crystal Palace designed by the architect John Paxton for the London World’s Fair of 1851, or the modern construction systems of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in steel, concrete, and wood.

Coupled with modern digital planning and production methods, modular precast construction systems that are adaptable for many combinations and capable of being combined with one other will play an increasingly important role in architecture in the future.
Discussions of transporting and assembling the various systems round off the topic and make this book an indispensable practical companion.

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ISBN: 978-3-7643-8656-6

240 p., 320 col. and 460 b&w photographs, hardcover, English