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Triumph and Tragedy on the Home Front
Author(s) -
Pawley Martin
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.207
Subject(s) - wright , boom , tragedy (event) , front (military) , art history , art , engineering , literature , mechanical engineering , environmental engineering
The history of the prefabricated is one of complete ‘nonperformance’ for the most renowned designs, produced by the most famous architects. Here, Martin Pawley reviews The Prefabricated Home by Colin Davies and explains how Davies' text reconciles the production failure of seminal works such as Buckminster Fuller's Wichita House and Lloyd Wright's Usonian Houses with the Second World War's prefab boom.