The Independent - London, August 14th, 1998
When the architect Jan Kaplicky of Future Systems predicts that, in the next century, builders will wear deck shoes rather than gumboots and a hard hat, he is not talking about global warming. He is highlighting a trend to pre-fabricate complicated new building shapes in boatyards. Organic architecture looks more like pods and shells than the way children draw houses - boxes supporting a pitched roof. Like shells, they have to be load-bearing. The buzz-word with adventurous architects is monocoque, which has previously been applied to aircraft fuselages, car bodies or ships' hulls in which n...
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