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Flexible

Architecture that Responds to Change

9781856694612

Laurence King Publishing
Available: 05/15/07
8.54 x 9.98 · 240 pages
9781856694612
CDN $56.00 · cl

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David Kronenburg

Flexible architecture adapts to new uses, responds to change rather than stagnating, and is motive rather than static. Understanding how it has been conceived, designed, made, and used helps us understand its potential in solving current and future problems associated with technological, social, and economic change. This book explores the whole genre of fl exible architecturebuildings that are intended to respond to evolving situations in their form, operation, or location. Crossing the boundaries between architecture, interior design, product design, and furniture design, this innovative book is the first to deal with the entire scope of the topic.

Robert Kronenburg is professor at the University of Liverpool. He has written a number of books, including Portable Architecture, Houses in Motion: The Genesis, History and Development of the Portable Building, and Spirit of the Machine: Technology as an Inspiration in Architectural Design.