Product Description

This book explores aspects of the historical and theoretical basis for portable architecture and provides an insight into the wide range of functions that it is used for today and the concerns and ideas for its future development.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1546549 in Books
• Published on: 1999-01-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

From the Back Cover
Transportable Environments contains essays from the first international multi-disciplinary conference on portable architecture held at the Royal Institute of British Architects, London, in May 1997. In this book, architects, designers, engineers, artists, manufacturers, educators and sociologists from all over the world explore wide-ranging topics related to the generation and manifestation of temporary and transportable buildings and places. Their investigations provide an insight into the history and context of such buildings, the wide range of functions they fulfil today, the varied forms they take, and the concerns and ideas for future development in the field. The range of topics is diverse - from examinations of closely defined topics of specialist interest to the exploration of generic, pragmatic issues relevant to the entire field of architecture and construction.