Nomadic homes come in all shapes and sizes. They are for the wealthy and the poor, the trendy and the out-of-luck. Changing one’s place of residence is an endeavor that is as old as humanity, for reasons of season, or, more recently, to better occupy leisure time.
Written and edited byPhilip Jodidio, this volume with illustrations by Russ Gray contains some of themost remarkable examples of homes on the move. Starting with totallyrevamped Airstream mobile homes, and going on tospectacular moveable vacation houses of the Epic Retreats “pop-up boutique hotel” in Wales, this book doesn’t stop moving, surveying the best incampers and tents, and going on to extravagantmarine dwellings likeBIG’s Urban Rigger, or the Manta Underwater Room in Zanzibar. At the other end of the spectrum, we findrefugee housing for those forced into a life on the move, including shelters designed by thePritzker Prize–winning architect Shigeru Ban.
What we discover throughout is that thenomadic spirit of our hunter-gatherer ancestorsis very much alive in the modern world. Where architecture has often sought stability and thus the lack of movement, modernity has brought a sense of the finite, and a good deal of modesty about posterity and longevity. What more contemporary thought could there be than to seek nothing so much as to move, to grow perhaps, but always to move. “A good traveler,” said the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu “has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” As this book ably shows, it is the journey that counts.
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