Cover; An Architecture of Parts; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I Industrialisation and the British building industry; 1 The industrialisation of building; 2 The building industry during war and reconstruction; 3 Education and training; 4 Post-war change: management and organisation; Part II Architectural abstraction: the role of the Modular Society in promoting industrialised methods; 5 The Modular Society
6 'Additive architecture': the early years of modular co-ordination7 The BRS and the mathematisation of architectural modularity; Part III 'Never argue with the architect': architects and building workers 1940-70; 8 'Put nobody between the architect and the men': the role of architects on site; 9 The nature of work in the construction industry; 10 Elusive connections: architects and building workers in mid-century Britain; Appendices; Glossary of modular terms; Notes; Bibliography; Illustration credits; Index
Summary
This book is unique in describing the history of post war reconstruction from an entirely new perspective by focusing on the changing relationship between architects and building workers. It considers individual, as well as collective, interactions with technical change and in doing so brings together, for the first time, an extraordinary range of sources including technical archives, oral history and visual material to describe the construction process both during and in the decades after the war. It focuses on the social aspects of production and the changes in working life for architects
