Proceedings Archive

Proceedings Archive

Proceeding Chapters

Critiquing CAM: Comparing Computer-Aided Manufacturing and Customized Repetitive Manufacturing

Yesterday's Tomorrow Was Today: The Revival of Mid-Century Optimism in the Age of Digital Fabrication

Who Already Does This Better? Mass Production + Customization

Morphfaux: Re-Siting Modular Construction Through Robotic Manufacturing

Prefab + Solar at Midcentury

Cherner and the FHA: Housing Research in the 1950's

Mail-Order Modern: Supermarket Magazines, Vacation Cabins, and Modular Measure in the 1950's

An American Wartime Dream: The Packaged House of Konard Wachsmann and Walter Groupis

Logistical Aspects of Prefabrication

Towards On-site: A Case Study on Multi-trade Prefabrication

Off-site Fabricators and Customization in History and Practice

Customized Container Architecture

Iterative Resilience: Synchronizing Dynamic Landscapes with Responsive Architecture Systems

Pattern and Performance: A Case Study of the NYU Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life

The Performative Potential of Cermanic Systems for Prefabricated Construction

Housing Agency System (HAS): Multi-Criteria Satisficing and Mass-Customization of Homes

Thermal Performance Issues of Glazing Façades and the Use of Environmental Parameters in Exterior Shading Device Design

Remediating Modules: Prefabricated Components for Improving Indoor Air Quality

Designing Better Portable Classrooms

Traditional Complex Modularity in Islamic and Persian Architecture: Interpretations in Muqarnas and Patkane Crafts, Focusing on their Prefabricated Essence

Hostel Detroit: Fabrications in Architecture

Making the Tool to Make the Thing: The Production of the R.G. Le Tourneau's Prefabricated Concrete Homes

Impediments to Integration: The Divergent Intentions and Convergent Expressions of the Dymaxion House and Demountable Space Structural Designs

Off-Site' Facilities Relevancy: A Restrospective of CRS Firm's Visionary Manner in Uncovering Challenges in Designing Production-Modularity Facilities

High Octane; Eco-adaptive Architecture

Prefabricating Charles Moore: Reinterpreted Saddlebags and Aedicules

Your Space Kit: Off-Site Prefabrication of Integrated Residential Fit- Out

Beyond the Trailers: Rethinking Affordable Manufactured Housing in the U.S.

Britney and K-Fed:Uniting Processed and Un-Processed Components is Affordable Housing

Locally Based Approach for Prefabricated Housing- Case Study: Indonesia

A New Norris House: Give and Take

Unmoored Architecture: On Modules, Mobility and Manufacturing in the RE:FOCUS House

The Urban Garden ; Industrialized Net Zero Energy Housing

Modular Urbanism

Speculative Evolution: Computational and Biogenetic Analogues in Contemporary Architectural Production

System Structures in Architecture: Towards a Theory of industrialized Construction

Into Africa: A Comparison of the Metal, Prefabricated Structures Proposed by Auguste Choisy (1893) and Jean Prouvé (1949) for the French Colonies

Modularity, Prefabrication + Building Manuals In postwar Italy: Scenes from America

Construction Critical: Technology, Millwork, and Interior Space

Prefab for Humanity

Ralph Rapson's Greenbelt: The Evolution of a Prototype

Green Infill Housing:Envisioning a Modular "Kit of Parts"

Off-the-grid: Three Academic Design/Build Projects Built Offsite, off-the-grid and for the Public

Off-Site/Off-world: Prefabrication for Extreme Conditions and Unpredictability

Form Follows Structure: Biomimetic Emergent Models of Architectural Production

Simple Aesthetics : Searching for a Theoreticl Basis for Design Restraint

Industrialised Building Systems: The "Palette" of Options