A clear argument for how and why the architecture industry needs to move to an integrated approach.

Packed with graphics that clearly illustrate how and why change is needed, with plenty of examples from the auto, shipbuilding, and aerospace industries for how to improve quality while saving time and money.

An incisive look at the roles of architects, product engineers, materials scientists, and contractors, and how they need to change.

Chapter 1: The Process Engineer and the Aesthetics of Architecture

Architecture: Art or Commodity?
The Hand and the Machine
Great Architecture
Equation
Integration � not Segregation
Tools of the Process Engineer
An Example: The Car
Result: Higher Quality
Master Building

Chapter 2: Role Reminders in the New World

Architect
Contractor
Materials Scientist
Product Engineer

Chapter 3: Enabling Systems as Regulatory Structure

Enabling Communications
Information Management/Representation/Organization
Communications Examples

Chapter 4: Processes We Do Not See

Integrated Component Assembly
Modular Assembly
Grand Blocks
Sectioned Assembly
Architecture of the Joint

Chapter 5: Architecture

Lessons of Modernism
Mass Production
Mass Customization
Present Realities
Transfer Processes
Transfer Materials

Chapter 6: Mass Customization of Architecture

Evolution
Building Blocks
Panel Methods
Architecture, Not Building
Case Study 1: Grand Block Method
Case Study 2: Panel Method

Chapter 7: Evolution Not Revolution

Evolutionary Architecture
How
When