PANEL

Although largely marginal within official accounts of modern architecture, during the second half of the twentieth century the devel opment of large concrete panel systems was central to debates about architectures modernisation and industrialisation. Through this development, not only was construction transferred from the building site to the factory floor, and manual labour succeeded by auto mated mass production, but political, aesthetic and ideological debates began to inscribe themselves onto the panel itself, a symbol for a wh...[Read more]