Transportable environments : theory, context, design, and technology : papers from the International Conference on Portable Architecture, London, 1997

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, the varied forms that it takes and the concerns and ideas for its future development. Written by a team of international commentators, this volume provides a state-of-the-art survey of this specialist area and will be of interest to a wide range of professionals across the construction and design industries. 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 An exploration of aspects of the historical and theoretical basis for portable architecture. This text provides an insight into the range of functions that it is used for today, the varied forms that it takes and the concerns and ideas for its future development. Architectural scholars and professionals have long recognized the erosion of culturally endowed architectural meaning: technology transfer has caused the relationship between form and its means, so evidently reciprocal in indigenous construction, to crumble. Edited By Robert Kronenburg. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 208-213) And Index.