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Mobile Office
The 1960s and 1970s, inflatable architecture was very en vogue with the Viennese avant-garde. Hans Hollein, Walter Pichler, Haus Rucker Co., and Coop Himmelb(l)au all experimented with pneumatics, calling for new structures and materials to extend architecture beyond its traditional constraints.
The Mobile Office (1969) was an “invisible”, collapsible workspace that could be carried around and set up virtually anywhere. In an interesting precursor to today′s understanding of the mobile workspace, Hollein is seen here in his “office” with drawing board and telephone in hand, at an airport stopover delivering “architecture” to a client.
Though inflatable architecture provided a mental leap in moving “beyond pure tectonic building and its derivations”, Hollein still considered them to be building materials and called for further experimentation with entirely nonmaterial means.
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Hans Hollein inside his mobile inflatable office, 1969. (Photo © Atelier Hollein)
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