Living in Motion: Design and Architecture for Flexible Dwelling

Living in Motion Design and Architecture for Flexible Dwelling
Featuring work by such noted designers as Isamu Noguchi, Marcel Breuer, Charles and Ray Eames, and Philippe Starck, among many others, Living in Motion: Design and Architecture for Flexible Dwelling brings together over 150 objects, as well as films and more than 500 illustrations, from the realm of architecture and design to address flexibility and mobility in contemporary domestic life.

Organized by the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany, Living in Motion will have its only U.S. showing at the Institute of Contemporary Art.

Furniture, houses, and objects that incorporate flexibility and multi-functionalis m have long been associated with the modern and the contemporary.

Living in Motion explores these phenomena in design and architecture while also locating them ethnographically and anthropologically.

The exhibition traces flexible modes of living back through centuries of design and across a variety of cultures, with objects ranging from early
European stair-ladders to northern African tents to South American hammocks.

Today's rapidly changing living conditions and technical advances have made domestic flexibility even more relevant.

As our homes, workplaces, and lifestyles are subject to greater variation than ever before, contemporary architects and designers aim to