New Portable Architecture: Designing Mobile & Temporary Structures - Hardcover

Shaoqiang, Wang

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8415967233 ISBN 13: 9788415967231

Publisher: Promopress, 2014

Synopsis

This title deals with the challenges that architects and designers face in creating spaces that can be rapidly constructed, taken down and even relocated. In revealing the cutting-edge techniques that are allowing static architectural forms to go mobile, the diverse examples provided in this book will capture readers' attention and imagination.

About this title

About the Author

Wang Shaoqiang is a professor at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, where he is dean of the design, visualization and animation department. He is the founder of Sandu Publishing, whose titles focus on international design, architecture, branding, communication, trends and culture, and the editor of Design 360 magazine and Asia-Pacific Design. He has been invited to lecture at numerous universities, design academies and organizations, and he has also been a jury member for China's most prestigious design and illustration awards.

From the Back Cover

We live in a world in movement, and this is reflected in what we build and how we live and work. There is a new necessity to analyse the challenges that architects and designers face in creating spaces that can be rapidly constructed, taken down and even relocated. New Portable Architecture reveals the cutting-edge techniques that allow static architectural forms to go mobile through a fascinating range of examples of portable architecture that will capture the reader's attention and imagination. The most up-to-date and comprehensive work on the subject, New Portable Architecture is an in-depth compilation of one of the newest areas in architecture. It covers a wide range of possibilities within the field and, at the same time, it provides a unique fusion of creative design, adaptability and sustainability.

From the Inside Flap

We live in a world in movement, and this is reflected in what we build and how we live and work. There is a new necessity to analyse the challenges that architects and designers face in creating spaces that can be rapidly constructed, taken down and even relocated. New Portable Architecture reveals the cutting-edge techniques that allow static architectural forms to go mobile through a fascinating range of examples of portable architecture that will capture the reader’s attention and imagination. The most up-to-date and comprehensive work on the subject, New Portable Architecture is an in-depth compilation of one of the newest areas in architecture. It covers a wide range of possibilities within the field and, at the same time, it provides a unique fusion of creative design, adaptability and sustainability.

Edition details

• Publisher: Promopress
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 8415967233
• ISBN 13: 9788415967231
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 240