KieranTimberlake is pleased to announce a new book, Cellophane House™

Released in January 2011 as a digital book, it is now offered in paperback, available for purchase on Amazon.com and at select bookstores worldwide including:

AIA Bookstore, Philadelphia
Builders Bookstore, Berkeley
Hennessey + Ingalls, Los Angeles
Joseph Fox Bookstore, Philadelphia
Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
National Building Museum Shop, Washington DC
Peter Miller Books, Seattle
Quimby's, Chicago
RIBA Bookshop, London
Wexner Center Store, Ohio State University, Columbus OH
William Stout, San Francisco

With 110 illustrations and detailed commentary, the book chronicles the design and execution of a five-story, off-site fabricated home assembled on-site in just sixteen days as part of The Museum of Modern Art exhibition, Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. Through a series of questions, the book explores several of KieranTimberlake’s ongoing research agendas including speed of on-site assembly, design for disassembly, a holistic approach to the life cycle of materials, and the development of a lightweight, high-performance, energy gathering building envelope.

PAPERBACK | 156 pages | 5.875” x 8.25” | 110 color illustrations | ISBN: 978-0-9831301-3-0 | $20 US | May 2011

Also available electronically on Amazon, iBooks and Google Books. Compatible with iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindle, Android, Mac and PC  | $9.99 US | Jan 2011

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KieranTimberlake is pleased to announce the release of a new eBook, Cellophane House™,available for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Kindle, Nook, Android, Mac and PC.

Cellophane House™ takes a radically different approach to off-site fabrication, reinventing the way buildings are assembled, what they are made of, and the experience of living in them. It demonstrates an end-of-life strategy that, enabled by an innovative structural frame and variety of connectors, makes disassembly and waste-diversion inherent in the building’s construction.

The book contains a detailed discussion of the house and 105 color photographs and illustrations. The iBooks version contains a time-lapse video of the assembly process.

Available at: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks.

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Billie Faircloth leads the KieranTimberlake Research Group, a trans-disciplinary research team which conspires to advance building design practices through material, system, process, and environment driven questions. She fosters collaboration between disciplines, trades and industries and their disparate bodies of knowledge. Prior to joining KieranTimberlake, Billie was an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture, where she instructed design studios and conducted research exploring applications for conventional and emerging material technologies.

Carin Whitney is responsible for deepening understanding of the firm by developing opportunities for discourse within the architectural community and for broadening public awareness of the firm through publications, exhibitions and lectures. She managed the development and production of Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake’s book Loblolly House: Elements of a New Architecture, and is currently working on two KieranTimberlake books scheduled for release in 2011.

Paul Seletsky is the founder of ArcSphere, a digital design consultancy, and former Senior Manager of Digital Design for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in New York, where he spearheaded research, migration, and development efforts in Building Information Modeling. He serves as co-chair of the AIA New York Technology Committee, presiding over a monthly lecture series highlighting technology and its impact on practice. He has managed digital design in both the public and private sectors for over twenty-five years, and has lectured at numerous academic and professional venues worldwide. His work and writings have fostered critical discussion and awareness of the interrelationship between conceptual and performative design processes, as manifested through the use of new (and familiar) digital technologies.