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Manmade Modular Megastructures
Ian Abley (Editor), Jonathan Schwinge (Co-Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-470-01623-7
Paperback
128 pages
April 2006
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Editorial (Helen Castle).

Introduction: Things Will Endure Less Than Us (Ian Abley).

Beyond Little Britain (Ian Abley).

Fumihiko Maki (Jennifer Taylor).

People, Not Architecture, Make Communities (James Heartfield).

London 2030: Taking the Thames Gateway Seriously (Ian Abley).

Travelling in a Straight Line (Oliver Houchell).

Cloud Piercer: Mile High (Jonathan Schwinge).

Architecture with Legs (Ian Abley + Jonathan Schwinge).

Standing Tall in the Estuary (Natasha Nicholson + Pamela).

Charlick Mega Rural: Made in Sunderland (Jonathan Schwinge).

Mass-Customisation and the Manufactured Module (James Woudhuysen).

Why Drive a TT and Live in a Broken Teapot? (Ian Abley).

Triumph and Tragedy on the Home Front (Martin Pawley).

Prefabricating Memory Lane: Whatever Happened to Systems? (John McKean).

Designer Volumetric at IKEA Prices (Ian Abley).

What’s Wrong with This Approach, Comrades? (Bee Flowers).

Functionality Rather than Good Intentions in Design (Michelle Addington).

Biomimicry versus Humanism (Joe Kaplinsky).

Our Overdeveloped Sense of Vulnerability (Frank Furedi).

Eero Saarinen and the Manufacturing Model (Jayne Merkel).

Think Big for the Developing World (Ceri Dingle + Viv Regan).

Appreciating Cumbernauld (Gordon Murray).

Cedric Price: From the ‘Brain Drain’ to the ‘Knowledge Economy’ (Stanley Mathews).

Waltropolis: City in a Box theboxtank (Emily Andersen, Geoff DeOld + Corey Hoelker).

Interchange Now (Robert Stewart).

Hollywood’s Noir Detours: Unease in the Mental Megalopolis (Graham Barnfield)

Building Profile: McLaren Technology Centre (Jeremy Melvin).

Practice Profile: McGauran Giannini (Soon Architects Shelley Penn).

McLean’s Nuggets (Will McLean).

Home Run: Evelyn Road, Silvertown, Niall McLaughlin Architects (Bruce Stewart).

Interior Eye: ‘Springtecture’ B (Masaaki Takahashi).

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