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Architecture schools have often taught that buildings should be static, stationary, and motionless—meant to be frozen in time and place. Partly because of their inherent mobility, practical solutions to provisional shelter such as mobile homes and Quonset huts were much maligned in the twentieth century.
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Chapter 6 Quonsets Today: Concluding Thoughts Julie Decker and Chris Chiei
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Decker, J., Chiei, C. (2005). Quonsets Today: Concluding Thoughts. In: Decker, J., Chiei, C. (eds) Quonset Hut. Princeton Archit.Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-56898-654-8_6
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