Eduardo Torroja 1949 : strategy to industrialise housing in post-World War II / Pepa Cassinello editor

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ISBN: 9788494182006
Editor: [Madrid] : Fundación Eduardo Torroja;, 2013 ; [Madrid] : Fundación Juanelo Turriano, 2013
Descripción Física: 376 p. : il.; 27 cm
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The huge housing demand existing in Spain in 1949 could not be met by traditional construction systems. The severe social problems thus generated was not exclusive to Spain: the countries that had participated in World War II were facing the same challenge, i.e., the need to build large numbers of housing units in record time. Industrialised systems consequently underwent intense development, generating a wide range of alternatives specific to the material and industrial resources and policies in place in each country. In that year, Eduardo Torroja, director of the Institute that now bears his name, organised an unprecedented international competition around industrialised housing. A total of 89 designers were submitted by authors from 17 countries. The aim was to establish industrialised housing systems specifically intended for Spain. That competition, today a nearly forgotten chapter in the history of housing industrialisation, is one of the three most significant milestones in Eduardo Torroja's strategy to drive progress in housing construction.

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PART I: EDUARDO TORROJA 1949: Eduardo Torroja: think different / Pepa Cassinello; Eduardo Torroja 1949: strategy to industrialise housing in post World War II / Pepa Cassinello; Exhibition: Eduardo Torroja 1949. International Ideas Competition on housing industrialization / Pepa Cassinello; The Construction Engineering Institute and the 1949 International Housing Competition / V. Azorín López, A. Sorli Rojo; Economic Outlook of Spanish housing industry in 1949 and the relevance of the Contest of the Instituto Eduardo Torroja / Natalia Cassinello Plaza
PART II: INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT: Richard Buckminster Fuller / Lord Norman Foster; Kahn and low-cost concrete housing: Vacuum Formed Method for Israel, 1949 / Roberto Gargiani, Anna Rosellini;Prefabricated and industrialised construction in Italy (1945-1980) / Tullia Iori, Sergio Poretti; Prefabricated houses in Post-war Germany and the Competition of Eduardo Torroja / Dirk Bülher; Industrialized and prefabricated housing in 1940s Britain / Bill Addis; Industrialised housing in France after World War II / André Guillerme; Prefabrication in Spain: deck slab development and present status / José Calavera; Early development in concrete prefabrication in Spain / David Fernández-Ordóñez; Emergency social housing 1971 / Antonio Fernández Alba; Industrialised housing: a nineteen seventies experience in Spain / Rafael Fernández Sánchez; Evolution of Lightweight Concrete: from Eduardo Torroja's 1949 International Competition to date / Pepa Cassinello, Alex Hückler, Mike Schlaich
ANNEX: Rules and information. International Competition 1949
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The huge housing demand existing in Spain in 1949 could not be met by traditional construction systems. The severe social problems thus generated was not exclusive to Spain: the countries that had participated in World War II were facing the same challenge, i.e., the need to build large numbers of housing units in record time. Industrialised systems consequently underwent intense development, generating a wide range of alternatives specific to the material and industrial resources and policies in place in each country. In that year, Eduardo Torroja, director of the Institute that now bears his name, organised an unprecedented international competition around industrialised housing. A total of 89 designers were submitted by authors from 17 countries. The aim was to establish industrialised housing systems specifically intended for Spain. That competition, today a nearly forgotten chapter in the history of housing industrialisation, is one of the three most significant milestones in Eduardo Torroja's strategy to drive progress in housing construction.

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PART I: EDUARDO TORROJA 1949: Eduardo Torroja: think different / Pepa Cassinello; Eduardo Torroja 1949: strategy to industrialise housing in post World War II / Pepa Cassinello; Exhibition: Eduardo Torroja 1949. International Ideas Competition on housing industrialization / Pepa Cassinello; The Construction Engineering Institute and the 1949 International Housing Competition / V. Azorín López, A. Sorli Rojo; Economic Outlook of Spanish housing industry in 1949 and the relevance of the Contest of the Instituto Eduardo Torroja / Natalia Cassinello Plaza
PART II: INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT: Richard Buckminster Fuller / Lord Norman Foster; Kahn and low-cost concrete housing: Vacuum Formed Method for Israel, 1949 / Roberto Gargiani, Anna Rosellini;Prefabricated and industrialised construction in Italy (1945-1980) / Tullia Iori, Sergio Poretti; Prefabricated houses in Post-war Germany and the Competition of Eduardo Torroja / Dirk Bülher; Industrialized and prefabricated housing in 1940s Britain / Bill Addis; Industrialised housing in France after World War II / André Guillerme; Prefabrication in Spain: deck slab development and present status / José Calavera; Early development in concrete prefabrication in Spain / David Fernández-Ordóñez; Emergency social housing 1971 / Antonio Fernández Alba; Industrialised housing: a nineteen seventies experience in Spain / Rafael Fernández Sánchez; Evolution of Lightweight Concrete: from Eduardo Torroja's 1949 International Competition to date / Pepa Cassinello, Alex Hückler, Mike Schlaich
ANNEX: Rules and information. International Competition 1949
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