Word: modularness
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...first persuaded the Mississippi legislature to vote a controversial $130 million tax-exempt bond issue to build the most modern shipyard in the country. Litton then contracted to lease the facility from the state for 30 years, paying enough to retire the bonds. The yard uses speedy, cost-cutting "modular" techniques developed by the Japanese; sections of ships are built separately, swung into place and welded together. Litton's hopes for defense work were hardly dampened by the fact that Mississippi's Senator John Stennis is chairman of the Armed Services Committee...
...Magdalena Abakanowicz have the look of untanned animal hides. The loose, three-dimensional web of New Yorker Sherri Smith's Volcano no. 10 hangs clear of the wall so it can be seen from either side. Paris-based Nebraskan Sheila Hicks abandoned the loom altogether to create her modular The Principal Wife, eight individual units that hang from a rod and can be added to indefinitely...
...high cost of conventional housing has spurred the development of a new kind of dwelling: the inexpensive, mass-produced "modular homes." This year scores of companies are bringing them out. Such instant housing consists of room-sized sections-generally 12 ft. wide and up to 60 ft. long-that are built, wired, piped and often decorated on cost-cutting factory assembly lines, then trucked up to 400 miles to a site, swung onto foundations by a crane, and fastened together. Builders claim that the modules are 10% to 25% less expensive than conventional houses...
...modules was started by Canada's Alcan Design Homes, which brought out a line of completely furnished aluminum-clad houses priced from $8,500 to $12,500, not including the lot and foundation. Indiana-based National Homes, one of the biggest manufacturers of prefabricated houses, opened its first modular plant last January. In a major industrial counterattack, National has also moved into mobile-home construction...
...model of Craig Hodgett's "Maxx," a modular pre-cast housing unit, is one answer to the very real need for cheap, mass-produced housing on a large scale. Yet he'll have to fight countless Societies for the Preservation of Anachronistic Architectural Techniques, not to mention the Bricklayers' Union, before such a valid solution is accepted...