The prefabrication in domestic architecture after the Second World War. The case of levittowns in USA

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  • Beatriz Guerrero González Autonomous University of Guadalajara, Mexico

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https://doi.org/10.32870/rvcs.v0i5.107

Keywords:

prefabrication, mass production, real estate, speculation , suburs

Abstract

To look back at a fundamental fact of the history of housing construction, as it was prefabrication in the United States in the immediate years after the Second World War hand in hand with specific company (Levitt & Sons), allows us to analyze the phenomenon from various points of view: professional, technical, economic, political, but where the most important should always be the social. The prefabrication was used only as a means to try to remedy a situation of housing need at a certain time, lowering costs and offering construction speed and not as the real solution to all the problems faced by the American society in those moments Therefore, what can we learn from this experience in our current situation?  

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Author Biography

Beatriz Guerrero González, Autonomous University of Guadalajara, Mexico

Professor at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara. Degree in Interior Design and Setting from the University of Guadalajara. Doctor from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. Member of the National System of Researchers, candidate level. She has published Models of housing, The diffusion of modern domestic architecture and Women and the North American house of the second postwar period, and collaborated in the Catalog of cultural assets of the neighboring villages of La Antigua Guatemala, in the Municipal Catalog of the Architectural Heritage of Gáldar and has prepared the graphic and GIS documents for the Master Plan of La Antigua Guatemala.  

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2019-08-16

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Guerrero González, B. (2019). The prefabrication in domestic architecture after the Second World War. The case of levittowns in USA. Vivienda Y Comunidades Sustentables, (5), 53–60. https://doi.org/10.32870/rvcs.v0i5.107

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