Quonset Hut Metal Living for a Modern Age /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Decker, Julie (Editor), Chiei, Chris (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Princeton Archit.Press, 2005.
• Subjects: Architecture.; Buildings.; Architecture / Design.; Building Types and Functions.

Julie Decker x Acknowledgments xii Introduction The Hut That Shaped a Nation Julie Decker and Chris Chiei xv Chapter 1 How the Hut Came to Be Chris Chiei 1 Chapter 2 Quonsets, Alaska, and World War II Steven Haycox 31 Chapter 3 War, Design, and Weapons of Mass Construction Brian Carter 47 Chapter 4...

Table of Contents:

• How the Hut Came to Be
• Quonsets, Alaska, and World War II
• War, Design, and Weapons of Mass Construction
• After the War: Quonset Huts and Their Integration Into Daily American Life
• The Huts That Wouldn’t Go Away: Alaska Adopts the Hut
• Quonsets Today: Concluding Thoughts.