The Lustron Home

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Trillium
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0814213057

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Lustron Stories by Anonim Pdf

The Lustron Corporation manufactured porcelain-baked, enamel-coated all-steel houses between 1948 and 1950 in Columbus, OH. Virtually everything--exterior siding, roof, interior walls, cabinets, and ceilings--was made out of this material. The components were shipped to site on specially designed trailers and assembled by local contractors using only wrenches. About 2,500 Lustrons were sold, mostly in the eastern United States, but as far afield as Miami and Los Alamos. Roughly two-thirds are still being used today. A remarkable cross section of individuals and families live in these modest ( 1100 sq. ft.) homes. While certainly diverse in age and place in life, the homeowners are still firmly working class. Everyone who lives in a Lustron home has an opinion about it. The material is miserable to cut or drill into. Repairs are more about metalworking and enamel finishing than carpentry or house painting. And magnets tend to be a popular solution for hanging objects inside and outside the steel walls. Four years ago, Charles Mintz set out to photograph the people living in these homes. The residents, owners, or both were photographed outside and occasionally inside. Mintz used a large format wooden camera and available light. This book features 65 of the resulting photographs and essays from Shannon Thomas Perich, Curator of the Photographic History Collection at Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, and Jeffrey Head, author and architecture critic.

Author : Thomas T. Fetters
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781476604770

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The Lustron Home by Thomas T. Fetters Pdf

Advertised as “a new standard for living,” the Lustron Home was introduced in 1948 in response to the urgent need for housing for veterans returning from World War II and their rapidly growing families. These enameled steel, prefabricated houses became very popular, and were heavily promoted from 1948 to 1950. Approximately 2,500 went up all over the United States and even South America. This work chronicles the history of the Lustron Corporation—how it got started and why it failed. The architectural differences between the six basic models of the Lustron Home, and how they could be built in as little as two days, are fully described. Also included is a listing that documents the location, model, color and various other particulars of the roughly 2,500 houses completed.

Author : Barry Bergdoll,Peter Christensen
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0870707337

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Home Delivery by Barry Bergdoll,Peter Christensen Pdf

Edited by Barry Bergdoll, Peter Christensen. Texts by Barry Bergdoll, Peter Christensen, Ken Tadashi Oshima, Rasmus Waen.

Author : Jack S. Goulding,Farzad Pour Rahimian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351376884

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Offsite Production and Manufacturing for Innovative Construction by Jack S. Goulding,Farzad Pour Rahimian Pdf

The offsite and modular market is continuing to grow. This book builds on the success of a number of initiatives, including formative findings from literature, research and development and practice-based evidence (success stories). It presents new thinking and direction from leading experts in the fields of: design, process, construction, engineering, manufacturing, logistics, robotics, delivery platforms, business and transformational strategies, change management, legislation, organisational learning, software design, innovation and biomimetics. This book is particularly novel and timely, as it brings together a number of cogent subjects under one collective ‘umbrella’. Each of these chapters contain original findings, all of which culminate in three 'Key Learning Points' which provide new insight into the cross-cutting themes, interrelationships and symbiotic forces that exist between each of these chapters. This approach also provides readers with new contextualised understanding of the wider issues affecting the offsite market, from the need to embrace societal challenges, through to the development of rich value-laden solutions required for creating sector resilience. Content includes a balance between case studies and practice-based work, through to technical topics, theoretical propositions, pioneering research and future offsite opportunities ready for exploitation. This work includes: stakeholder integration, skills acquisition, new business models and processes, circularity and sustainable business strategies, robotics and automation, innovation and change, lean production methodologies and new construction methods, Design for Manufacturing and Assembly, scaled portfolio platforms and customisability, new legal regulatory standards and conformance issues and offsite feasibility scenario development/integration.

Author : Albert Farwell Bemis Foundation,Burnham Kelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 137605874X

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The Prefabrication of Houses by Albert Farwell Bemis Foundation,Burnham Kelly Pdf

Author : Ryan E. Smith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780470880463

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Prefab Architecture by Ryan E. Smith Pdf

"Prefab Architecture . . . is beyond theory, and beyond most of what we think we know about pods, containers, mods, and joints. This book is more than 'Prefabrication 101.' It is the Joy of Cooking writ large for the architecture and construction industries." From the Foreword by James Timberlake, FAIA THE DEFINITIVE REFERENCE ON PREFAB ARCHITECTURE FOR ARCHITECTS AND CONSTRUCTION PROFESSIONALS Written for architects and related design and construction professionals, Prefab Architecture is a guide to off-site construction, presenting the opportunities and challenges associated with designing and building with components, panels, and modules. It presents the drawbacks of building in situ (on-site) and demonstrates why prefabrication is the smarter choice for better integration of products and processes, more efficient delivery, and realizing more value in project life cycles. In addition, Prefab Architecture provides: A selected history of prefabrication from the Industrial Revolution to current computer numerical control, and a theory of production from integrated processes to lean manufacturing Coverage on the tradeoffs of off-site fabrication including scope, schedule, and cost with the associated principles of labor, risk, and quality Up-to-date products featuring examples of prefabricated structure, enclosure, service, and nterior building systems Documentation on the constraints and execution of manufacturing, factory production, transportation, and assembly Dozens of recent examples of prefab projects by contemporary architects and fabricators including KieranTimberlake, SHoP Architects, Office dA, Michelle Kaufmann, and many others In Prefab Architecture, the fresh approaches toward creating buildings that accurately convey ature and expanded green building methodologies make this book an important voice for adopting change in a construction industry entrenched in traditions of the past.

Author : Douglas Knerr
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business failures
ISBN : 9780814209615

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Suburban Steel by Douglas Knerr Pdf

"Suburban Steel chronicles the rise and fall of the Lustron Corporation, once the largest and most completely industrialized housing company in U.S. history. Beginning in 1947, Lustron manufactured porcelain-enameled steel houses in a one-million-square-foot plant in Columbus, Ohio. With forty million dollars in federal funds and support from the highest levels of the Truman administration, the company planned to produce one hundred houses per day, each neatly arranged on specially designed tractor-trailers for delivery throughout the country. Lustron's unprecedented size and scope of operations attracted intense scrutiny. The efficiencies of uninterrupted production, integrated manufacturing, and economies of scale promised to lead the American housing industry away from its decentralized, undercapitalized, and inefficient past toward a level of rationalization and organization found in other sectors of the industrial economy." "The company's failure marked a watershed in the history of the American housing industry. Although people did not quit talking about industrialized housing, enthusiasm for its role in the transformation of the housing industry at large markedly waned. Suburban Steel considers Lustron's magnificent failure in the context of historical approaches to the nation's perpetual shortage of affordable housing, arguing that had Lustron's path not been interrupted, affordable and desirable housing for America's masses would be far more prevalent today."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Robyn Schiff
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781587297601

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Revolver by Robyn Schiff Pdf

As restless, reckless, and precise as the Colt revolver for which it is named, Robyn Schiff’s Revolver “repeats fire without reloading” as it reckons with the array of foreboding objects displayed at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the traces of their ghosts one hundred years later. A dirge on the Singer Sewing Machine, an exuberant and unnerving rumination on multipurpose campaign furniture, and a breathless account of Ralph Lauren’s silver Porsche 550 Spyder are among the collection’s exhilarating corporate histories, urgent fantasias, and agonizing love poems. The long, lavish, and utterly unpredictable sentences that Schiff has assembled contort as much to discover what can’t be contained as what can. This is a book of extremes relentlessly contemporary in scope. And like the eighty-blade sportsman’s knife also described here, Revolver keeps opening and reopening to the daunting possibilities of transformation—“Splayed it is a bouquet of all the ways a point mutates.” from “Silverware by J. A. Henckels” Let me be as streamlined as my knife when I say this. As cold as my three-pronged fork that cools the meat even as it steadies it. A pettiness in me was honed in this cutlers’ town, later bombed, in which Adolf Eichmann, who was born there alongside my wedding pattern, could hear the constant sharpening of knives like some children hear the corn in their hometowns talking to them through the wind. The horizon is just the score they breathe through like a box of chickens breathing through a slit.

Author : Stephen Kieran,James Timberlake
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568987471

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Loblolly House by Stephen Kieran,James Timberlake Pdf

Situated on idyllic Taylors Island, off the coast of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay, Loblolly House inaugurates a new, more efficient way of building. Through the use of state-of-the-art building information modeling, the architects were able to streamline the design-build process. This is a manual for the componentized prefab.

Author : John Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Charleston
ISBN : UOM:39015055387644

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The Defense of Charleston Harbor by John Johnson Pdf

Author : Theodore H. M. Prudon
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0471662941

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Preservation of Modern Architecture by Theodore H. M. Prudon Pdf

As today's valued examples of modern architecture age to the point that preservation is called for, the methods and technology used in such preservation must be carefully considered so that the design integrity of the building is maintained. Written by the president of an organization committed to the documentation and preservation of modern architecture, this book outlines best practices for undertaking such efforts and addresses the latest technological advances in the field. Containing relevant case studies of preservation projects in the United States and in Europe, this is the only professional reference for architects dedicated specifically to the subject of preserving modern architecture. "Winner of the Association for Preservation Technology International 2008 Lee Nelson Book Award"

Author : Eric Renshaw
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738594187

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Forgotten Sioux Falls by Eric Renshaw Pdf

The falls of the Big Sioux River were formed 14,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, as melting ice eroded a channel down to the bedrock, revealing an abundance of Sioux quartzite. The power and beauty of the falls have attracted people to the area ever since, while Sioux quartzite has been used to construct many of the area's buildings. Incorporated as a city in 1856, Sioux Falls has steadily grown from a population of 17 at the time of establishment to 153,888 as of the 2010 census. As a natural part of that growth, change dictates that the old and worn out should make way for the new and shiny. Lest these things be forever forgotten, this book strives to point out what has been lost, what has been saved, and what can be found if one knows where to look.

Author : David L. Ames,Linda Flint McClelland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : MINN:31951D02106921U

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Historic Residential Suburbs by David L. Ames,Linda Flint McClelland Pdf

Author : Patrick Hagopian
Publisher : Culture, Politics, and the Col
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1558499024

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The Vietnam War in American Memory by Patrick Hagopian Pdf

This title presents a penetrating account of the cultural politics surrounding the memorialisation of the Vietnam War. It is a study of American attempts to come to terms with the legacy of the Vietnam War.

Author : Rosemary Fuller Thornton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 0971558817

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The Houses that Sears Built by Rosemary Fuller Thornton Pdf

History of Sears Kit Homes with info on how to find and identify these old kit homes. Alson includes photos, graphics, diagrams and oral histories from workers at the Sears Mill and people who built their own Sears Home. Also history on Richard W. Sears and Alvah Roebuck; history on Sears and Roebuck, Co.