MOVING BUILDINGS

Season 16 of arcCA DIGEST looks at buildings that move or have been moved or that, in some way, hold a less permanent relationship to their setting than we normally think of buildings having. They include a 500-year-old room transplanted from England to San Francisco and an even older Spanish chapter house reconstituted north of Chico. There's a portable shelter for the homeless, a farm headquarters relocated by barge, and a 4,800 ton hotel shifted half a block in San Jose. We direct you to a presentation on the promise of thermobimetals, and to the republication, in Places Journal, of a classic essay by J.B. Jackson. And there are selections from the arcCA print archive, as well, on Burning Man and on an architecture office in a box. Enjoy.




J.B. Jackson’s “The Westward-Moving House” is about a different sort of movement, cultural and geographical rather than mechanical....
“It’s elegant that anywhere would rise and fall in a week, and, some years here, that even happens...
And you thought reappropriating the mobile home was hip. Scott McGlashan of McGlashan Architecture has designed and built...