Architecture and mobility
Two from the depths of v-2.org, by Adam Greenfield:
Thom Faulders of Beige Design: the v-2 interview (2001)
What makes the notion of mobility so continually appealing that we seek to integrate cues from mobile environments - planes, Airstream trailers, yachts etc. - into an inherently static environment? Is this just window dressing, or does it fulfill a deeper purpose? How can an aesthetic and tactics developed for a nomadic lifestyle be repurposed in an immobile structure with integrity?
Living in, around, and with soft spaces (2001)
Soft architecture will, there is no question, be an important addition to the library of twenty-first century building forms. It may even become the dominant tendency, so convincing does the logic of mutant materials driven by cheap processing power seem. It will not do so in the domestic sphere, we believe, until it answers the age-old human need for a certain measure of stability, continuity and programmatic transparency amid all the competing claims of global data churn and good ol’ daily chaos.
Brings to mind Kari Jormakka’s sweet little volume Flying Dutchmen: Motion in Architecture, which looks at innovative Dutch architects and the sense of movement in their buildings.
And thinking of tensions between mobility and stability, has anyone looked at Alexander Calder’s sculptures recently? There are lessons hidden there. I’m sure of it.