Wednesday, February 6, 2013


It starts at the bottom and works its way up and is a work in progress 




-1932 Moma international style show
      Introducing the International Style to American Fab


-Gropius and Meyer building blocks 1923


- 1920 Movie -one week-

-1910 Bauhouse

-Le corbusier Dom-Ino house 1914

         Proposed mass-structural plan for post war development, open floor plan/concrete regularly spaced vertical supports.  The inclosure would be left to the individual to be able to represent the place and people.  
 


  

-World War Huts






-1910 Pre-cut/prefab companies develop




To Produce easy cheep homes between the turn of the century and WW2

     -Aladdin readi-cut kit company

     -Montgomery Ward
     -Eatons
     -Sears Roebuck & Co. Catalogs
 


Parametrically: The 15 styles Sears used to produce 477 variations of a house, from 


                 -75,000 Sears kit homes were built in the U.S. between 1908 and 1940. 








Defining Characteristics of a Sears Kit home

Sears Kit Homes Catalog





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