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

KieranTimberlake's KTLH 1.5  and Belles Townhomes created with the developer LivingHomes appeared in a list of 19 Stunning Platinum Projects of 2010 on Jetson Green.

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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.

Lucie Young, The Telegraph, 05 January 2011

Design and nature form a harmonious alliance on the Maryland shore, where the architect Stephen Kieran and his wife Barbara live in a house inspired by the pine forest around them

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The built detail (left) and the reconstructed detail (right)

KieranTimberlake constructed a full scale critical detail of Loblolly House in our Philadelphia shop, now on display at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's National Design Triennial, Why Design Now? exhibition, on view from May 14-January 9, 2011.

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