Grosvenor Atterbury
Grosvenor Atterbury (* July 7, 1869 in Detroit, † October 18, 1956 in Southampton (New York) ) was an American architect, urban planner and writer. After attending Yale University, a trip to Europe and studying architecture at Columbia University in New York, he worked in the architectural office of McKim, Mead & White. Many of his early work consisted of weekend houses for wealthy industrialists. From 1902 to Atterbury dealt with the rationalization process of housing construction.
By 1910 (according to other sources until 1918 ) he was awarded the contract for the construction of settlements Forest Hills Gardens in Queens, New York, a project funded by the Russell Sage Foundation since 1909, Garden City project, which followed the ideas of Ebenezer Howard. For this construction project, he developed a method of prefabrication of large-sized, up to room-high elements, which is considered the beginning of the bricks. Each house was built from approximately 170 standardized concrete elements that were industrially prefabricated and assembled after arrival with the help of cranes.
The concrete slabs were prepared in reusable scarf shapes and already contained cavities as thermal insulation. The finished concrete elements then had to be moved twice: in the work of the mold on the truck, and the truck by crane for mounting on the site.
As a system Atterbury, the process also became known in Europe and in the 1923-25 Dutch Betondorp, a pilot project in the district of Amsterdam Oost / Watergraafsmeer adapted. From 1926 again ( now called the Splanemann settlement ) originated with the warrior homestead settlement in Berlin -Friedrichsfelde the first German prefab moved to this production principle.
Sources and links
- The history of industrial building
- Grosvenor Atterbury: Model Towns in America. (1912 ) - (English )
- Urban Designer ( United States)
- Architect ( United States)
- Americans
- Born in 1869
- Died in 1956
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