Refabricating Architecture : How Manufacturing Methodologies Are Poised to Transform Building Construction

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