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expertise and communicable knowledge. The course was sponsored by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.
Travel and field trips informed the work. The students began the semester
by disassembling a mobile home in a local trailer park. A visit to the
construction site of a wood frame house set a background for understanding
conventional construction. The class then traveled to learn how manufactured
homes are assembled in a factory; to see how they are sold from dealer's
lots; and to see them installed in residential settlements,
including old style "trailer parks" and the newest land developments
in Massachusetts and North Carolina.
Methodologically, the studio worked with the notion of "parallel
projects." This method aimed for fluidity in design, and a sense
of process as crafting alternative approaches to problems rather than
devising singular solutions. One line of work entailed collaborative
research focusing primarily on manufactured housing within the spectrum
of factory-built housing; its federal definition, physical description,
evolution, and popular reception.
Students used a variety of sources including legal history, housing
economics, cultural criticism, zoning codes, maintenance manuals, and
the yellow pages. Simultaneously, each student designed two houses that
reflected on some precise potential for manufactured housing. The opportunity
for dialectical interaction between related terms -- single-wide and
double-wide, flat site or sloped, mobility and stasis -- stimulated
the
design process and kept it moving. On the basis of research and observation,
the students criticized contemporary standard practices and advocated
new approaches. Parallel projects reinforced an experience of the design
process that is nonlinear, though continuous; that has many dimensions;
and that shows how work in one area can inform other areas in ways not
immediately apparent.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
An Introduction
A Survey of Factory-Built Housing
Timeline
Legal Parameters
Affordability
Components
Materials
Disassembly: A 1961 Mobile Home
Precedent Studies
Jean Prouve
Moshe Safdie
Paul Rudolph
Deborah Berke
Duany, Plater-Zyberk
Wes Jones
Student Projects
Mimi Hoang
Kiwa Matsushita
Sarah Radding
Patricia Rhee
Barbara Stein
Jane Yates
Bibliography
Carol Burns:
Manufactured
Housing Studio Site
Publication Title
Manufactured Housing Catalog : Carol Burns Studio, Harvard University
Graduate School of Design
Year Published
1999, President and Fellows of Harvard College
Edited and Produced by
Carol Burns and Charlie Cannon
Catalog Designed by
Jane Yates
Format:
62 pages, black and white photographs, images, essays, drawings and
CD-ROM.
In the Frances Loeb Library:
General Collection: NA7145.M35 1999
(CD kept in Visual Resources)
Special Collections: Rare NA7145.M35 1999