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The Museum of Modern Art, New York
August 2008
On Sale: August 1, 2008
248 pages
ISBN: 0870707337
EAN: 9780870707339
Hardcover
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As the world's population swells and the need for
sustainable ways of living grows ever more urgent and
obvious, prefabricated architecture has taken center stage.
Even before our current predicaments, the mass-produced,
factory-made home had a distinguished history, having
served as a vital precept in the development of Modern
architecture. Today, with the digital revolution
reorganizing the relationship between drafting board and
factory, it continues to spur innovative manufacturing and
design, and its potential has clearly not yet come to
fruition. Home Delivery traces the history of
prefabrication in architecture, from its early roots in
colonial cottages though the work of such figures as Jean
Prouve and Buckminster Fuller, and mass-produced variants
such as the Lustron house, to a group of full-scale
contemporary houses commissioned specifically for the MoMA
exhibition that this book accompanies. In addition to an
introductory essay by Barry Bergdoll, Chief Curator in the
Museum's Department of Architecture and Design, this volume
contains essays on prefabricated housing in Japan and in
Nordic countries by Ken Tadashi Oshima and Rasmus Waern,
respectively. It also includes focused texts on
approximately 40 historical projects and five commissions,
as well as a bibliography.
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