An architecture of parts : architects, building workers and industrialisation in Britain 1940-1970 / Christine Wall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wall, Christine

Series:

Routledge research in architecture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architects and builders--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Architects and builders.

Architecture and society--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Architecture and society.

Construction industry--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Construction industry.

Industrial sociology--Great Britain.

Industrial sociology.

Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Great Britain.

Reconstruction (1939-1951).

Construction industry--Social aspects.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 234 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

Summary:

"Providing a new perspective on post-war reconstruction in Britain, this book examines the social context of the construction industry in the immediate post-war period and culminating in the industrialised building boom of the 1960s and 70s. It explores policy changes in education, training and employment in relation to the experience of work for both architects and building workers, demonstrating the extreme separation of design from production, the factor cited in the Emmerson Report of 1962 as a major contributor to the failure of the British building industry to fully modernise. Christine Wall charts the erosion of the elusive and tenuous link between designers and builders and its residual presence in the discourse of skill through an examination of changes in education and training, and examines competing architectural positions on standardisation and dimensional co-ordination in building. Using analysis of visual, oral and documentary material An Architecture of Parts offers a compelling analysis of architecture, construction and the uneasy relationship between them in post-War Britain"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Industrialisation and the British Building Industry. The Industrialization of Building

The Building Industry during War and Reconstruction

Education and Training

Post-War change: management and organization

Architectural abstraction: the role of The Modular Society in promoting industrialized methods. The Modular Society

"Additive architecture": the early years of modular co-ordination

The BRS and the mathematization of architectural modularity

"Never argue with the architect": architects and building workers 1940-70. "Put nobody between the architect and the men": the role of architects on site

The nature of work in the construction industry

Elusive connections: architects and building workers in mid-century Britain.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-224) and index.

ISBN:

9780415637947

0415637945

0203799151

9780203799154

1135091072

9781135091071

OCLC:

794041096