Title Lord of the wings : the making of free form architecture / Mick Eekhout, Sieb Wichers

Published Amsterdam, The Netherlands : IOS Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Series Research in architectural engineering series ; volume 12 Research in architectural engineering series ; v. 12. Summary Industrialized housing has been a common phenomenon in the building industry since the industrial revolution; the casting of iron components enabled Victorian iron casters to prefabricate entire buildings and to export them to all British colonies. It got a second boost from Modernist architects like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Konrad Wachsmann; and a third boost in the US when the soldiers came back from the Second World War in 1945 and wanted to buy a ready-made house.In the later decades of the 20th century composite prototypes were built. Timber frame houses are extremely popular in low density areas worldwide. For densely populated areas housing is now firmly attached to reinforced concrete. The contracting industries have developed efficient building methods for the concrete structures on which separate systems of claddings are fixed to form a house.However, in the coming decades, designers, builders and scientists also have to keep the environment in mind, working with a minimal amount of materials, and for minimizing embodied energy and energy use. In the coming age minimal embodied energy and low ecological footprints are renewed values that will be added to energy-positive housing and that will have an influence on the building technology of the future. This will lead to a reformation of the building vocabulary. Other materials will have to be chosen and developed to function in building elements and components Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (IOS Press, viewed March 31, 2016) Subject Architectural design. Architecture. architecture (discipline) ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation. ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments. ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice. ARCHITECTURE -- Reference. Architectural design Architecture Form Electronic book Author Wichers, Sieb, author IOS Press. ISBN 9781614995500 1614995508 1614995494 9781614995494

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