LEADER 04436nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910811263403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-135-80578-4 010 $a1-135-80579-2 010 $a1-282-77749-1 010 $a9786612777493 010 $a0-203-02385-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203023853 035 $a(CKB)1000000000255736 035 $a(EBL)165454 035 $a(OCoLC)560058349 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000261781 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11217472 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000261781 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10257972 035 $a(PQKB)10041124 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC165454 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL165454 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10054887 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL277749 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000255736 100 $a19981117d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aTransportable environments $etheory, context, design, and technology : papers from the International Conference on Portable Architecture, London, 1997 /$fedited by Robert Kronenburg 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cE & Fn Spon$d1998 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 215 pages) $cillustrations 300 $a"Simultaneously published in ... Canada." 311 0 $a1-138-40909-X 311 0 $a0-419-24250-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 208-213) and index. 327 $aCover; Transportable Environments: Theory, Context, Design and Technology; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 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 Japanese Architecture; The Suitcase: (Postcards and Paraphernalia) Redefining the Space of Tourism and Travel; Context; From Learned Pigs to the Burning Man: Itinerant Amusement in America 327 $aFuller's 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 327 $aThe Service, Form and Function of Relocatable Structures: A Constructor's View; Softdwelling: A Programme for Living and Working; Standardisation in Portable Architecture; A Structure, a Village, an Exploration; Sustainable Portable Housing, Cave Cay, Bahamas; Wearable Environments; Whaur Extremes Meet - The Story of a Line; Technology; The Development of a Lightweight Military Shelter; An Expandable and Contractible House; Implementing Portable Architecture; Lightweight Prefabricated and Precast Construction for Remote Building Applications in Australia 327 $aSteel-Frame Modular Building Comes of Age; Possibilities for the Development of Building with Pre-assembled Portable Components in the Developing World; Sustainable Transportable Classroom; Endword; List of Delegates; Selected Bibliography; Index 330 $aTransportable 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. 606 $aBuildings, Portable$vCongresses 606 $aBuildings, Prefabricated$vCongresses 615 0$aBuildings, Portable 615 0$aBuildings, Prefabricated 676 $a720 701 $aKronenburg$b Robert$0740927 712 12$aInternational Conference on Portable Architecture$f(1997 :$eLondon, England) 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811263403321 996 $aTransportable environments$93988355 997 $aUNINA