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An insider's glimpse into how the natural environment, energy, the
economics of construction, and the processes of collaboration
inform KieranTimberlake's celebrated practice. "KieranTimberlake: A
Manual of Work" comprehensively documents the beauty and relevance
of KieranTimberlake's unique and celebrated vision. By undertaking
a path of research into potential technologies that alter
fabrication and delivery methods, and that influence the way we
live in our environments, KieranTimberlake endeavors to reshape our
expectations of architecture. Nineteen residential, commercial,
academic, and civic projects are featured here, including the
firm's own dynamic studio; buildings for such prestigious
institutions as Yale University, Cornell University, and the
University of Pennsylvania; and the new U.S. Embassy in London.
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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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