The allure of mobile, portable architecture is worldwide and centuries old, from the desert tents of the bedouin to the silvery capsules of the Airstream trailer. Mobile explores the ever-growing range of possibilities of portable, demountable, and mobile structures. Jennifer Siegal brings together the work of the most interesting contemporary designers of dynamic, active structures, whose work ranges from the microenvironment of a house that literally attaches to your body to the city-scaled macroenvironment of London's Millennium Dome, from the interior of a Boeing jet to an entire mobile community whose living units plug into a framework of flexible communal space, and from the practical design of transportable office space to the whimsical design of Pink Floyd's The Wall stage set. All of the designs celebrate the lightness, transience, and practicality that mobile architecture makes possible.Mobile includes work by Office of Mobile Design, LOT/EK, Vito Acconci, Doug Jackson/LARGE, Mark Fisher, Michael Fox, FTL Happold, Festo, and Lawrence Scarpa. In beautiful color images, detailed drawings, and thoughtful text, the contributors reveal their working methods.
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Jennifer Siegal is head of the Office of Mobile Design in that most mobile of cities, Los Angeles, and Associate Professor at Woodbury University, Burbank.
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A little anemic, but some solid ideas are represented here. I would have liked a little coherency in the presentation, and a lot more depth.
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Shipping container book par excellence,
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I like all the color pics and illustrated designs that are going in all over the world. I use containers at Lake Tree Farm, on all my farms and job sites and this book gave me a world of new ideas to try. Fire up my plasma cutter and carve me a new building. (I'm typing this sitting in a toasty warm office container on a 10 deg. day). I'd like to have seen this book cover more construction methods and guess I'll have to write my own. Hat's off to the authors.
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Mobile: the Art of Portable Architecture,
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A paean to inflatables, tensile canopies, demountable stages, and trailers, by an innovative LA architect and teacher who believes that "Anything you can't fold up and take with you is a blight on the environment and an insult to one's liberty." (Michael Webb is the book reviewer for LA Architect magazine.)
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The information age whets our appetite for the exploration of the unknown. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fluidic muscle, new nomadism, mobile architecture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Academy Editions, Portable House, Reyner Banham, Vito Acconci, Zevos Kiosk, Luis Vera, Jenny Schrider, Frei Otto, Jean Prouvé, The Visions of Ron Herron New!
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- Tensile Structures (v. 1 & 2) by Frei Otto on page 27, and page 28
- Design by Choice by Reyner Banham on page 27, and page 28
- The Visions of Ron Herron (Architectural Monographs No 38) by Reyner Banham on page 27, and page 28
- Tensile Structures - Architectural Design Profile 117 by Academy on page 27, and page 28
- The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord on page 2, and page 27
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- Transportable Environments 3 by Robert Kronenburg on page 188, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Experimental Eco-Design: Product, Architecture, Fashion by Cara Brower in Back Matter
- Quonset Hut: Metal Living For The Modern Age by Chris Chiel in Back Matter
- Ritual House: Drawing on Nature's Rhythms for Architecture and Urban Design by Ralph Knowles in Back Matter
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