This is Temporary

How transient projects are redefining architecture

Cate St Hill

• Publisher: RIBA Publishing
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9781000702361
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

Temporary architecture is flourishing in our urban public spaces. Branded 'pop-ups' and follies to provide a moment of light entertainment they are in fact borne of a long history of more holistic architecture that is subtly suggesting how we could live, work and play more harmoniously together.

Featuring revealing interviews with 13 young, emerging and socially-minded practices from New York and Santiago to London, Berlin and Zurich it also analyses this phenomenon in critical essays by well-respected practitioners and thinkers. Providing a highly personal insight into the architects' experience, the design process, the challenges they encountered and how it affected their practice it sheds light on the growth of multidisciplinary collectives, community engagement and more participatory ways of designing, making and building. Including highly illustrated and imaginative projects ranging from a floating cinema and tiny travelling theatre, through ad-hoc structures made of found objects and discarded materials, and blow-up plastic bubbles, to a community lido and market restaurant this will open your eyes as to what is possible in architecture.

Index

140 Boomerangs, Peace Fountain, West Smithfield (Studio Weave) 88, 88, 89

Aberrant Architecture (UK) 73–75, 77–86

Despite Efficiency: Labour, Canterbury 82, 85

mobile structure, Lower Marsh Market, Waterloo 76

Roaming Market, London Waterloo 74–75, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79–81, 80

Social Playground, FACT Gallery, Liverpool 81–82, 82, 83

Swansea, civic stage 8 1, 82

Tiny Travelling Theatre 73–74, 73, 78–79, 78, 79, 83, 84

Aeropolis, Copenhagen (Plastique Fantastique) 149, 151, 166, 173, 173, 174

Ahn, Je 87

Aldgate, Paleys upon Pilers (Studio Weave) 68, 71–72, 87, 90, 93–94, 96, 97, 98

Allen, Isabel 180

Alley, Hugh, ’A Caveatt for the City of London’ 75

Amphibious Architecture, East River, New York (The Living) 20–21, 20, 21

Amphis Theatre, Cambridge (Köbberling and Kaltwasser) 148, 161–162, 161, 162, 163

architect, role of 81

Architectural Association, London (AA) 12, 30, 34

Architectural Review, Emerging Architecture awards 12, 25, 28, 87

Architecture Foundation, Open Office (We Made That) 50, 51

art installations 177–183

Ash Sakula Architects (UK), Caravanserai, Canning Town 38, 205–207

Assemble (UK) 101, 103–104, 107–116

Folly for a Flyover, Hackney Wick 104, 112, 113, 113, 114

The Cineroleum, Clerkenwell 104, 108, 109, 110, 111

Yardhouse, Sugarhouse Studios, London Stratford 106, 107, 114, 115

awards 19, 43, 77, 87, 185

Emerging Architecture 12, 25, 28, 87

Barotti, Marco 150, 168, 170

Bedford Square, London, Rainforest Pavilion (Gun Architects) 10, 26, 28–33, 30, 31, 32, 34–35, 34, 35

Benjamin, David 9, 11, 12, 15–22

Bergdoll, Barry 27

Berlin

Köbberling...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• About the editor and contributing authors
• Foreword
• Introduction
• CHAPTER 01: Young architects' programmes: testing, testing, testing...
• CHAPTER 02: Public realm and engagement: facilitating possibilities and animating places
• CHAPTER 03: Playful storytellers: digging deeper and building narratives
• CHAPTER 04: Collectives and self-initiated projects: making it up as you go along
• CHAPTER 5: Participative building and materiality: scarcity of resources and a platform for communication
• CHAPTER 6: The art world and temporary architecture: the meeting of two disciplines
• Conclusion
• Endnotes
• Index
• Image credits