Kinetic Architecture

From dust jacket notes: "...Fully evaluating the bold and exciting potentials of architecture which can accommodate time-change effects the authors provide a wealth of supporting examples which show how man can now, for the first time, construct a physical environment that is adaptive to his specific needs. Denouncing the 'monument syndrome of static, permanent architecture' in light of current needs, the authors pursue new architectural mediums which would remain responsive to a broad spectrum of changing conditions. Such buildings might expand, contract, or even move as pointed up in the book's numerous examples and illustrations. Here you'll gain new insights into the principles and possibilities of dynamic self-erecting structures such as the United States pavilion in Osaka, Japan...incremental structures which have the potential to meet changing pressures through additive, subtractive, or substitutive capabilities (which suggest new ideas for the mobile home industry)...disposable buildings - a possible solution to cost-benefit problems...the merits of a 'second-hand' building market based on the capabilities of reversible architecture...and many more equally fascinating innovations."