Joints in Motion
1963 · Offset lithograph
composition: 17 1/8 x 11 9/16" (43.5 x 29.4 cm); sheet: 27 7/16 x 19 5/8" (69.7 x 49.8 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Konrad Wachsmann
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Architecture in Steel: An Experiment in Standarization by Konrad Wachsmann
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1946
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Konrad Wachsmann was an American architect and structural engineer known for his pioneering work in prefabrication and modular construction systems. Born in Germany and active in the United States from the 1940s onward, he developed innovative timber frame systems and demountable building techniques that anticipated industrialized housing. His theoretical and practical contributions to rational building methods and spatial modularity influenced postwar American architecture and prefabrication design. Wachsmann combined rigorous structural logic with an interest in geometric systems and human scale.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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