Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Preface 1. Towards Architecture of Change Branko Kolarevic 2. Making Space for Time David Leatherbarrow 3. Flexible Architecture: Continuous and Developing Robert Kronenburg 4. Devising Design: Agility, Aptness, Equilibrium, Imperfection Brian Sinclair 5. Smart Architecture, Dumb Buildings Michelle Addington 6. Adaptive, Responsive Building Skins Branko Kolarevic and Vera Parlac 7. Dynamic, Adaptive Building Envelopes Edwin B. Hathaway 8. Transformable: Building Structures That Change Themselves Chuck Hoberman 9. Beneficial Change: The Case for Responsiveness and Robotics in Architecture Tristan d'Estrée Sterk 10. Self-Assembly and Programmable Materials Skylar Tibbits 11. Bio-Robotic Architecture Michael Fox 12. Material as Mechanism in Agile Spaces Vera Parlac 13. Exploring Responsiveness in Architecture Vera Parlac 14. Diffusive Architecture: A Manifesto Philip Beesley 15. RAD: Make Alive Rodolphe el-Khoury and Carol Moukheiber 16. Architecture of Participation Usman Haque 17. Powerlines Kas Oosterhuis and Ilona Lenard 18. It is All About Particles Enric Ruiz-Geli Author Biographies Photo Credits Index

About the Author

Branko Kolarevic is a Professor at the University of Calgary Faculty of Environmental Design where he also holds the Chair in Integrated Design.

Vera Parlac is a registered architect in Pennsylvania, US, and an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary.