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Preoccupation with image and a failure to look at process has led entire generations of architects to overlook transfer technologies and transfer processes. Kieran and Timberlake argue that the time has come to re-evaluate and update the basic design and construction methods that have constrained the building industry throughout its history. They skillfully demonstrate that contemporary architectural construction is a linear process, in both design and construction, where segregation of intelligence and information is the norm. They convince the reader to look at the automobile, shipbuilding, and aerospace industries to learn how to incorporate collective intelligence and nonhierarchical production structures. Those industries have proven to be progressively economic, efficient, and they yield a higher quality product while the production of buildings stagnates in the methods and practices of the nineteenth century. The transfer they envision is the complete integration of design with the craft of assembly supported by the materials scientist, the product engineer, and the process engineer, all using the tools of present information science as the central enabler.The new architecture will not be about style, but rather about substance -- about the very methods and processes that underlie making.

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• Chapter 1 The Process Engineer and the Aesthetics of Architecture Architecture: Art or Commodity? The Hand and the Machine Great Architecture Equation Integration ndash; not Segregation Tools of the Process Engineer An Example: The Car Result: Higher Quality Master Building
• Chapter 2 Role Reminders in the New World Architect Contractor Materials Scientist Product Engineer
• Chapter 3 Enabling Systems as Regulatory Structure Enabling Communications Information Management/Representation/Organization Communications Examples
• Chapter 4 Processes We Do Not See Integrated Component Assembly Modular Assembly Grand Blocks Sectioned Assembly Architecture of the Joint
• Chapter 5 Architecture Lessons of Modernism Mass Production Mass Customization Present Realities Transfer Processes Transfer Materials
• Chapter 6 Mass Customization of Architecture Evolution Building Blocks Panel Methods Architecture, Not Building
• Case Study 1 Grand Block Method
• Case Study 2 Panel Method Cha

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