Cover art for Temporary Tecture
Published
Birkhauser, September 2024
ISBN
9783035628654
Format
Softcover, 312 pages
Dimensions
18cm × 11cm

Temporary Tecture Stuctures Of Necessity

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Temporary structures, such as scaffolding, barriers, and building sites, ensure the functioning of multiple processes, from construction and deconstruction to maintenance, guidance, and protection. Temporary Tecture presents a new perspective on this type of contemporary vernacular architecture-often overlooked in both public and professional discourse, despite its omnipresence.

This new approach reveals that these "structures of necessity" provide an architectural language from which architects can learn in terms of adaptability, use of local resources, circular economy, and conceptual radicalism. Ultimately, it raises the question: How permanent should architectural solutions be in a continuously changing world?

With contributions by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Jan De Vylder and Philip Ursprung

Numerous photographs of global, temporary structures

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