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Transportable Environments

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ISBN-10: 0419242503

ISBN-13: 9780419242505

Edition: 1999

Authors: Robert Kronenburg

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Transportable Environments 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.
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Book details

List price: $150.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 3/16/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 9.75" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

ROBERT KRONENBURG is an architect and senior lecturer in the School of Architecture and Building Engineering at the University of Liverpool, UK. A Fulbright fellow, he has been a guest lecturer at universities across Europe and the USA. He has contributed to a range of programmes for BBC Radio, and has written for Architectural Design, The Architects' Journal, Building Design and Fabrics Architecture. His books include Houses in Motion (Wiley-Academy, 1995; 2nd Edition, 2002), FTL: Softness Movement and Light (Wiley-Academy, 1997) and Portable Architecture (Architectural Press, 2000), and he is editor of Transportable Environments (E & FN Spon/Routledge, 1998). In 1998 he was curator of the…    

Acknowledgements
Foreword by Cedric Price
Introduction
Theory
Body World and Time: Meaningfulness in Portability
Following the Trace - Spirits in the Landscape
Constructing the Ephemeral: The Notions of Binding and Portability in
The Suitcase: (postcards and paraphernalia) Redefining the Space of Tourism and Travel
Context. From Learned Pigs to the Burning Man: Itinerant Amusement in America
Fullers DDU project (1941-44) Instrument, Art or Architecture? (Heroic design versus ad hoc pragmatism)
Gimme Shelter: Short-term Solutions for a Long-term Problem: Temporary Housing for No-income and Low-income people
Kyoto Machiya: Ideas of Spatial Layering, Ritual Disclosure and Portability in the Form of Japanese Traditional City Dwelling
Shelter Not Homes - Appropriate Emergency Relief
Design Micro Architecture in Education
The Principle and the Commercial Reality of Portable Architecture: A manufacturer's view
The Service, Form and Function of Relocatable Structures: A Constructor's View
Softdwelling: A Programme for Living and Working
A Structure, A Village, An Exploration
Sustainable Portable Housing
Wearable Environments
Whaur (sic) Extremes Meet - The Story of a Line
Gunn, University of Manchester, UK
Technology The Development of a Lightweight Military Structure
An Expandable and Contractable House
Implementing Portable Architecture
Lightweight Prefabricated and Precast Construction for Remote Building Applications in Australia
Steel-Frame Modular Building Comes of Age
Possibilities for the Development of Building with Pre-assembled Portable Components in the Developing World
Sustainable Transportable Classrooms
Endword: Extracts from the Closing Plenary Session of the Portable Architecture Conference and Symposium
List of delegates
Selected bibliography
Index