Transportable environments 3 / edited by Robert Kronenburg ; co-edited by Filiz Klassen.
The latest volume in this popular series of books which explores the theoretical basis for temporary and transportable structures where permanence is either not possible or desirable. The book provides insight into the wide range of uses of these structures, the varied forms they take and the concer...
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Taylor & Francis,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustration Credits; Foreword; Theory, History and Context; Polyphilo's Thresholds: Alternatives for Nomadic Dwelling; The Figure of the Spiral in Marcel Duchamp and Frederick Kiesler; 10,000 Songs in Your Pocket: The iPod as a Transportable Environment; Oil and Water: Offshore Architecture; A Generation on the Move: The Emancipatory Function of Architecture in the Radical Avant-Garde 1960-1972; Carried Away! The Spatial Pleasure of Transportability; Ephemeral Landscape, Portable Dwelling: The Ice Fishing House and the Fish House ommunity.
- DesignTransformation in Architecture and Design; Traces: The Architecture of Remembering; Plastic and Bamboo: Tailor-made Tent Design; Pedestrial Clip-on Footbridge: Making Use of Temporary City Space; Mobility Between Heaven and Earth; Mobile Architecture and Pre-Manufactured Buildings: Two Case Studies; Technology; Transportable Environments: Technological Innovation and the Response to Change; Material Innovations: Transparent, Lighweight, and Malleable; Mobilized Manufacturing: The On-Site Construction of Freeform Composite Shells.
- Transformable and Transportable Architecture with Scissor StructuresA Very Rapid Deployable Canopy System; Biological Structures and Deployable Architectural Structures; Projects; LOT-EK, Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano (New York, USA); Office of Mobile Design, Jennifer Siegal (Los Angeles, USA); Biomimesis in Architecture: Inspiration for the Next Generation of Portable Buildings; Dockable Dwelling; Crysalis: A Portable Personal Shelter; In. Ter. Tex. Ture: Weaving Kinetic Structures; i-Home: Smart Student Living; Portable Performance Space.
- Mobile Clinic: A Transportable Treatment Unit for Sub-Saharan AfricaTrajectory of the Junks; Past Tents: A Scenographic Experiment; Biographies; Selected Bibliography; Index.