Kinetic architecture allows parts of a building to operate ... “It wasn’t our intent to fetishize kinetics, but to use it at the service of the building’s programming,” says Tribus. For example, when ...

This concept called "kinetic architecture" allows buildings to dynamically adapt ... The Shed in New York, for example, can morph its built form to support various forms of public activity.

Here are 10 of the best, including projects with sliding walls, kinetic facades and rotating rooms. This conceptual "transformer building" was designed by Californian architecture firm ...

Kinetic design, also known as kinetic architecture in ... the shape of the stationary. Examples of this notion include a lamp with a twisting fabric shade, or building walls with wavy, swooping ...

In preparation for the at-length discussions on these topics, Payson and Maskin shared some insights of theirs regarding kinetic design, historic architecture ... to screen buildings in new ...

Despite its title, Kinetic Architecture is not a book about buildings with components that literally move. Instead, its authors, Russell Fortmeyer and Charles D. Linn (both former editors at ...

One of Portland's last remaining examples of space-age commercial architecture could be torn down soon. Once the city's first , a 1963 building on lower East Burnside sports a "checkmark" roof and ...

Here are 10 of the best, including projects with sliding walls, kinetic facades and rotating rooms. This conceptual "transformer building" was designed by Californian architecture firm ...