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Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Nis , Niš , Serbia
Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Nis , Niš , Serbia
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Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Nis , Niš , Serbia
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Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Nis , Niš , Serbia
Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Nis , Niš , Serbia
Although prefabricated buildings have long been present in modern civil engineering and architectural practice, they still have strong supporters and opponents. This paper explores the achievements of prefabricated construction in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century by presenting two significant buildings: Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace in London from 1851, and Le Corbusier’s Maison Citrohan in Stuttgart, developed between 1920 and 1927.
These authors and their buildings - each in their own time - pushed the boundaries of prefabricated construction through their authenticity, ideas, visions, applied technologies, and materials, opening the door to a method still in use today.
This research was supported by the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia, under the Agreement on Financing the Scientific Research Work of Teaching Staff at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Niš - Registration number: 451-03-137/2025-03/200095 dated 04/02/2025. This research was also supported by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, br.7363, Project title: IMPROVEMENT OF FUNCTIONAL, ENERGETIC, LIGHTENING AND STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CLOSED AND SEMI CLOSED HALLS COVERED BY STRUCTURAL TEXTILE MEMBRANES, ACRONYM: BALLOON-HALL Optima.
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