Articles Tagged with ''prefabrication''

Continuing Education: Prefabrication

Polyhaus’s Tiny Mass-Timber ADU Offers a Possible Solution to a Very Big Housing Problem

San Diego

January 3, 2025

Using 25 repeating CLT panel shapes, the newly patented housing system achieves a construction cost of $550 per square foot in California’s expensive market.

First Look

Sauerbruch Hutton Anchors a Mixed-Use Plot with a Glinting Jewel Box

Leopoldo Villardi

January 2, 2025

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In Berlin, the firm adapts an unbuilt Miesian scheme for the 21st century using its preferred building medium: architectural terra-cotta.

Continuing Education: Prefabrication

January 1, 2025

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This special section explores the latest in prefabrication, highlighting technological advances, structural innovations, and feats of infrastructural engineering.

Multifamily Housing 2024

With the San Mateo County Navigation Center, Charles F. Bloszies Pioneers a Rapid Response to Homelessness

Redwood City, California

Clare Jacobson

May 3, 2024

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The architect's open-source housing model offers a readily deployable solution to the Bay Area’s homelessness crisis.

New Wall and Ceiling Products for Fall 2023

New Wall & Ceiling Products for Fall 2023

November 24, 2023

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These tactile acoustic and modular systems were designed to meet the specs of numerous commercial projects.

Continuing Education: Modular Construction

Katharine Logan

September 1, 2019

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New modular construction methods may help fix the global housing crisis.

New Views into an Unheralded Element of Mies

A new exhibit at the Elmhurst Art Museum explores the architect’s foray into pre-fabrication.

Zach Mortice

June 25, 2018

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A new exhibition at the Elmhurst Art Museum in Illinois explores a little-studied corner of Mies van der Rohe’s career: his brief fascination with pre-fabrication.

Curvaceous 3D-Printed House Advances Toward Construction

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

March 22, 2018

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The urban studio of architecture firm WATG and 3D-fabrication company Branch Technology have completed structural testing for what they say will be the world’s first “freeform” printed house.

IGS Kalbach-Riedberg by NKBAK

Frankfurt, Germany

Mary Pepchinski

January 1, 2018

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Prefabricated wood units stack to create friendly interim quarters for a German middle school.

Continuing Education: Pushing Prefabrication

Russell Fortmeyer

September 1, 2016

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From entire buildings to discrete components, the use of off-site construction is expanding across multiple building types.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU; 0.1 IACET CEU

This course highlights the benefits, applications, and design potential of expanded mesh and perforated metal in creating sustainable, inspiring architectural projects.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/Elective; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU; 0.1 IACET CEU

This webinar offers strategies to develop next-gen leaders, enhancing value, retention, and resilience for architecture firms.