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An Architecture of Parts: Architects, Building Workers and Industrialisation in Britain 1940 - 1970 (Paperback)
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An Architecture of Parts: Architects, Building Workers and Industrialisation in Britain 1940 - 1970 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Architecture
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This book is unique in describing the history of post war
reconstruction from an entirely new perspective by focusing on the
changing relationship between architects and building workers. It
considers individual, as well as collective, interactions with
technical change and in doing so brings together, for the first
time, an extraordinary range of sources including technical
archives, oral history and visual material to describe the
construction process both during and in the decades after the war.
It focuses on the social aspects of production and the changes in
working life for architects and building workers with increasing
industrialization, in particular analysing the effect on the
building process of introducing dimensionally co-ordinated
components. Both architects and building workers have been accused
of creating a built environment now popularly discredited:
architects responsible for poor design and building workers for
poor workmanship. However, many of the structures and ideas
underpinning this period of rapid change were revolutionary in
their commitment to a complete transformation of the building
process. An Architecture of Parts adds to the growing literature on
changes in the building world during and immediately after the
Second World War. It is significant, both empirically and
historically, in its examination of the ideas, technology and
relationships that fired industrialization of the building process
in mid-century Britain.
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