More Mobile :
Portable Architecture for Today
Jennifer Siegal

The allure of mobile, portable architecture is worldwide and centuries old. From the desert tents of the Bedouin to the silvery capsules of the Airstream trailer, mobile architecture has inspired designers with its singular characteristics of lightness, transience, and practicality. In More Mobile, the follow-up to her groundbreaking 2002 book Mobile, Jennifer Siegal explores the ever-growing range of possibilities of portable, demountable structures. From serious Refuge Wear to the playful Bar Rectum and the practical Kunsthallen, More Mobile explores the working methods and finished work of the most exciting contemporary designers and presents today's most dynamic, active mobile structures in beautiful color images, detailed drawings, and thoughtful text. Contributors include Studio-Orta, Dré Wapenaar, Andrea Zittel, Andrew Maynard, Andreas Vogler, Horden Cherry Lee Architects, N55, Atelier Bow-Wow, Mark Fisher Studio, MMW, LOT-EK, and the Office of Mobile Design. A foreword by Jude Stewart discusses life on the move, while an introduction by William J. Mitchell considers the house as a robot in which to live.


Jennifer Siegal is founder and principal of the Los Angeles-based firm Office of Mobile Design, which explores the ideas of dynamic, accessible, sustainable architecture. She is a former Loeb Fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Design and is the inaugural Julius Shulman Institute Fellow at Woodbury University.
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Editorial Reviews

Nomad 2.0, The Architects Newspaper:
"The timing could not be better for a collection of ingenious experiments. Waves of foreclosures, a near Depression, and an enlightened new administration committed to fresh approaches provide an opportunity unmatched since the critical housing shortage of the mid 1940s." — Michael Webb (January 28, 2009)

Urban Design:
"...as one pages through More Mobile, the second book of portable architecture compiled by Los Angeles architect Jennifer Siegal, one cant help but admire the cleverness of bicycle furniture, birthing tents, a roving school, open-plans RVs, and modular living cubes. Its all undeniably cute. But is it something more than that?" — David S. Morton (Spring-Summer 2009)

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