Prefab

This book was published in 2002. It had many colour photos and schematic diagrams. From pages 12 to 38, it provided a brief history of the prefabricated house. Quite an interesting read. Then, it talked about how these prefab houses were produced. After that, it went to talk about individual custom-built prefab houses and concept prefab houses with examples. At the end of the book, it even provided a list of architects and their addresses who were involved in the projects mentioned in the book. This book is not for the coffee table but on the shelf to be read for information. If you intend to built a prefab house (as in my case), then this book is insufficient in terms of new developments, new designs and new materials being used today. It did not mentioned about the durability and longevity of the prefab houses nor the cost of their maintenance (if any). There is no mention about the contour and size of the land where the prefab houses were being built upon including the total cost of the building at the time. In summary, it's good read for historical information, the journey the prefab house had taken and the various prefab houses being conceived by the various architects around the world.

I bought this because I am thinking on building my own new family home and like the modernism and on-site cleanliness that comes from prefab construction methods. I wanted to see what can be done and where there might be some design considerations I had not...er...considered! This book was very helpful, but it would be better if it gave information on costs and suppliers.

I found this at a tourist place and decided that I needed it, but not at the price in the tourist store. Interesting reading. A friend is a realtor in Tacoma, and has found a few of the Sears homes up there. It's a good book for when you have some time to kill, but don't want to get wrapped up in a novel.

More for Architects/designers than engineer/developers.Quite a few architect and/or architecture firms are show cased.Lots of great photos and more than a few fantastic designs are shown.Just not much else.

a Good Book!Dr. Mislin

Love it, it is what the title says. Great book with great projects (although not too many of them, but diverse enough to satisfy the reader). Not a technical book on prefab...

The book is wel written and very beautifully photographed. The history is interesting, but would have liked to see more current info.

everything about these books, its big and pretty and full of pictures helped me so much with inspiration on projects!

More architecture oriented book. No technical information there.

Great pictures, not enough detail.