The book looks at the emergence of the prefab as a unique housing form. It examines the reasons prefabs have survived way beyond their design life of fifteen years, when other post-war housing types have been demolished. There is no other single text that sets the temporary housing programme in context.
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'...the text provides valuable new detail about the decision-making, logistics and social significance of this project. It also gives food for thought about the wider significance of this experiment in prefabricated housing.' - Built Environment
'Brenda Vale is to be congratulated on selecting a topic that invites original analysis, and on searching the archives thoroughly. She is especially helpful in explaining the architectural and technical aspects of prefabs. The book is clearly written...' - Planning Perspectives
'The book is meticulously researched, and provides detailed insights into the political debate at the time, and criticisms from the professional press. It is an enthralling story at the very heart of the New Jerusalem that politicians and ambitious professionals, filled with postwar idealism, wished to create.' - Journal of Architectural Conservation
'The volume is well referenced and illustrated...from contemporary sources' - Urban Studies
'Brenda Vale is to be congratulated on selecting a topic that invites original analysis, and on searching the archives thoroughly. She is especially helpful in explaining the architectural and technical aspects of prefabs. The book is clearly written...' - Planning Perspectives
'The book is meticulously researched, and provides detailed insights into the political debate at the time, and criticisms from the professional press. It is an enthralling story at the very heart of the New Jerusalem that politicians and ambitious professionals, filled with postwar idealism, wished to create.' - Journal of Architectural Conservation
'The volume is well referenced and illustrated...from contemporary sources' - Urban Studies
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In comparison with today's architectural aesthetics the prefab is small, boring and probably unworthy of extensive study. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
temporary housing programme, aluminium bungalow, permanent housing programme, temporary bungalows, prototype bungalow, prefabricated bungalow, emergency huts, bungalow plan, bungalow form, asbestos cement sheet, temporary houses, emergency houses, building labour, bungalow types, prefabricated houses, housing form, permanent houses, cover strips Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ministry of Works, Ministry of Health, Picture Post, World War, Lord Portal, Minister of Works, Army Bureau of Current Affairs, Mass Observation, The Builder, Official Report House of Lords, Arcon Mark, Official Report House of Commons, Minister of Health, Parliamentary Papers, Chartered Architects, United States, Ministry of Reconstruction, Ministry of Supply, Tate Gallery, Architectural Forum, Housing Manual, Scottish Office Building Directorate, Minister of Reconstruction, Tennessee River, Avoncroft Museum of Buildings New!
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In comparison with today's architectural aesthetics the prefab is small, boring and probably unworthy of extensive study. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
temporary housing programme, aluminium bungalow, permanent housing programme, temporary bungalows, prototype bungalow, prefabricated bungalow, emergency huts, bungalow plan, bungalow form, asbestos cement sheet, temporary houses, emergency houses, building labour, bungalow types, prefabricated houses, housing form, permanent houses, cover strips Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ministry of Works, Ministry of Health, Picture Post, World War, Lord Portal, Minister of Works, Army Bureau of Current Affairs, Mass Observation, The Builder, Official Report House of Lords, Arcon Mark, Official Report House of Commons, Minister of Health, Parliamentary Papers, Chartered Architects, United States, Ministry of Reconstruction, Ministry of Supply, Tate Gallery, Architectural Forum, Housing Manual, Scottish Office Building Directorate, Minister of Reconstruction, Tennessee River, Avoncroft Museum of Buildings New!
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- The New Architecture and The Bauhaus by Walter Gropius on page 82, and Back Matter
- History of Prefabrication (Technology and society) by Alfred Bruce on page 53, and Back Matter
- Two Centuries of American Planning by Daniel Schaffer in Front Matter
- Towards a New Architecture (Dover Architecture) by Le Corbusier in Back Matter
- Scope of Total Architecture by Walter Gropius in Back Matter
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