Cellophane House™
Authors: KieranTimberlake, Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake
Foreword:Sandy Isenstadt, Afterword: Billie Faircloth
Publisher: KieranTimberlake, May 2011
Paperback, 5.625 x 8.25 in (15 x 21 cm)
156 pages, English | $20 USD
ISBN: 978-0-9831301-3-0

Available on Amazon.com and at select bookstores nationwide 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

Cellophane House™ 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, this 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.

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

Loblolly House: Elements of a New Architecture
Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, June 2008
Hard cover, 7.5 x 10 in (19.1 x 25.4 cm)
176 pages, English
125 color illustrations, 46 b/w illustrations and DVD of construction
$40 USD
ISBN 9781568987477

Available on Amazon.com and at select bookstores nationwide

KieranTimberlake puts its ideas about streamlining the design-build process to the test in this groundbreaking house, featuring an adjustable double-skin facade. Situated on idyllic Taylors Island, off the coast of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay, Loblolly House inaugurates a new, more efficient way of building through the use of building information modeling (BIM) and integrated component assemblies. With minimal impact to the site's ecosystem, the house was manufactured off-site and lifted into place. Thousands of parts were collapsed into a few dozen prefabricated cartridges and blocks that simply slid into an industrial frame on location.

refabricating ARCHITECTURE
Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional, November 2003
Paperback, 5.8 x 8.9 in (15 x 22.5 cm)
175 pages, English
$19.95 USD
ISBN: 0-07-143321-X

Preoccupation with image and a failure to look at process has led entire generations of architects to overlook transfer technologies and transfer processes. Kieran and Timberlake argue that the time has come to re-evaluate and update the basic design and construction methods that have constrained the building industry throughout its history. They skillfully demonstrate that contemporary architectural construction is a linear process, in both design and construction, where segregation of intelligence and information is the norm. They convince the reader to look at the automobile, shipbuilding, and aerospace industries to learn how to incorporate collective intelligence and nonhierarchical production structures. Those industries have proven to be progressively economic, efficient, and they yield a higher quality product while the production of buildings stagnates in the methods and practices of the ninteenth century. The transfer they envision is the complete integration of design with the craft of assembly supported by the materials scientist, the product engineer, and the process engineer, all using tools of present information science as the central enabler.

ISBN: 978-7-112-11118-3 (Chinese)

ISBN: 89-5592-056-3 (Korean)

Also available in Korean and Chinese language versions

Manual: The Architecture of KieranTimberlake
Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake
Introduction, Alberto Perez-Gomez
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, March 2002
Hardcover 10.75 x 8.75 in (27.5 x 22.3 cm)
Paperback 8.5 x 10.5 in (21.5 x 26.7 cm)
224 pages, English
$45 US Paperback, $60 US Hardcover
ISBN: 1-56898-313-1

Manual is no typical architectural monograph. It is a guidebook to how the successful Philadelphia firm KieranTimberlake builds their buildings. Manual reveals the architect's "trade secrets," opening the firm's files of details to show us how things are made. Anyone who has every looked at a building or a staircase or a shelf and wondered "how did they do that?" will find the answer in Manual. By disclosing their design strategies-illustrating them with photographs and detailed working drawings from twenty-nine built projects ranging from houses to schools, KieranTimberlake provides in this unique book a level of understanding not otherwise possible.