Cover -- Transportable Environments: Theory, Context, Design and Technology -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Theory -- Body World and Time: Meaningfulness in Portability -- Following the Trace-Spirits in the Landscape -- Constructing The Ephemeral: The Notions of Binding and Portability in Japanese Architecture -- The Suitcase: (Postcards and Paraphernalia) Redefining the Space of Tourism and Travel -- Context -- From Learned Pigs to the Burning Man: Itinerant Amusement in America -- Fuller's DDU project (1941-44) Instrument, Art or Architecture?: (Heroic design versus ad hoc pragmatism) -- Gimme Shelter: Short-term Solutions for a Long-term Problem: Temporary Housing for No-Income and Low-Income People -- Kyoto Machiya: Ideas of Spatial Layering, Ritual Disclosure, and Portability in the Form of Japanese Traditional City Dwelling -- Shelter not Homes - Appropriate Emergency Relief -- Design -- Micro Architecture in Education -- The Principle and the Commercial Reality of Portable Architecture: A Manufacturer's View -- The Service, Form and Function of Relocatable Structures: A Constructor's View -- Softdwelling: A Programme for Living and Working -- Standardisation in Portable Architecture -- A Structure, a Village, an Exploration -- Sustainable Portable Housing, Cave Cay, Bahamas -- Wearable Environments -- Whaur Extremes Meet - The Story of a Line -- Technology -- The Development of a Lightweight Military Shelter -- An Expandable and Contractible House -- Implementing Portable Architecture -- Lightweight Prefabricated and Precast Construction for Remote Building Applications in Australia -- Steel-Frame Modular Building Comes of Age -- Possibilities for the Development of Building with Pre-assembled Portable Components in the Developing World -- Sustainable Transportable Classroom -- Endword.

List of Delegates -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.