Category Archives: flexible

blogs related to flexible, adaptable and interactive architecture fit here

Thinking, Doing and Making at HELLO WOOD

This summer I spent eight hot days in rolling farmland a few hours from Lake Balaton in rural Hungary. Up a farm track, amidst a matrix of huge fields was a triangle of land which became, over just a few … Continue reading

Posted in all together now..., contemporary architecture, flexible | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Tiny House

One cold March a few years ago I was travelling through New England on a short holiday after a week’s work in New York. I didn’t have any rooms booked or arrangements made and this had led me on a round-about … Continue reading

Posted in all together now..., contemporary architecture, flexible, traditional architecture | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Political Architecture: The ‘big’ and the ‘flexible’

  A few years ago I was in Bucharest helping judge a competition to design a large-scale temporary installation in one of the city’s squares. The organisers set the judging panel up in the Palace of the Parliament constructed in … Continue reading

Posted in all together now..., contemporary architecture, flexible | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

How many planets? Sustainability and flexible design

Over the past few months I have been updating some writing on mobile and flexible architecture that I first prepared nearly twenty years ago, and as you might expect, much has changed in the intervening period. One of the things … Continue reading

Posted in all together now..., contemporary architecture, flexible, portable | 2 Comments

What can temporary architecture do? The BMW Guggenheim LAB symposium

What can temporary architecture do? What can it achieve in comparison with static architecture? These were two of the key questions explored in a brief ‘temporary’ symposium held at the Atelier Bow Wow designed pavilion on its penultimate day in … Continue reading

Posted in all together now..., contemporary architecture, flexible, portable | Leave a comment