Manufacturing Architecture: An Architect's Guide to Custom Processes, Materials, and Applications
Abstract
manufacturing of repeatable integrated Architectural Graphics Standards—Gulling’s systems, components, and procedures. Manufacturing Architecture synthesizes As a guide, Manufacturing Architecture now-ubiquitous novel fabrication pro- identifies the terms with which custom cesses, providing an essential resource and architectural components are produced primer for architectural students, academ- through repetitive processes in manu- ics, and practitioners. The book serves as facturing supply chains and production a precursor for a subgenre of architectural lines. Methods and procedures of such literature, as well as a timely indication of classification, referred to as Customized the shift from on-site building practice, Repetitive Manufacturing (CRM), are governed by relationships of trade prac- described in detail through built case tices described by the traditional architec- tural detail, to off-site manufacturing and studies of varying scale and typolo- prefabrication of building components and gy. While CRM differs from fully CNC assemblies dictated by integrated systems processes, in that CRM is not neces- and processes. sarily entirely computer controlled, ele- Manufacturing Architecture emerges ments of the process can be customized from a body of work over the last cou- through CNC or other means, providing ple of decades documenting the transfor- a degree of mass customization and effi- Manufacturing mative influence