Prefabs: A Social and Architectural History
- ISBN-10
- 1848023510
- ISBN-13
- 9781848023512
- Category
- Prefabricated houses
- Pages
- 115
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- Historic England Publishing
- Authors
- Elisabeth Blanchet, Sonia Zhuravlyova
Description
As slums were cleared after the Blitz, there was a pressing need for housing. Successive governments championed prefabrication as a speedy solution. The authors look at the success of post-war prefab housing in the wider context of British social housing. The book also looks at architecturalinnovation and imaginative design in the field of prefabrication and clever solutions being put forward to solve the housing crisis of today.
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