Restless Architecture is the exhibition catalogue produced for Diller Scofidio + Renfro's survey at MAXXI in Rome, charting the studio's sustained investigation into buildings that move, flex, expand, and adapt rather than stand fixed in space.
About This Book
Few architectural studios have pursued movement as a design principle with the rigour and range of Diller Scofidio + Renfro. This volume, produced on the occasion of their Restless Architecture exhibition at MAXXI — Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo in Rome, maps the conceptual territory behind their mobile, reconfigurable, and transformable structures. The book articulates a vision of architecture that deliberately rejects geo-fixity and passivity in favour of mobility, flexibility, machinism, and intelligence. It traces how DS+R dissolves the boundary between building and installation, treating movement not as spectacle but as the primary medium through which space accommodates human presence. Essential reading for those engaged with contemporary experimental architecture and performance-led spatial practice.
Key Features
- 144 pages documenting mobile, transformable, and reconfigurable architectural works by Diller Scofidio + Renfro
- Curated by Diller Scofidio + Renfro; exhibition held at MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, 25 October 2024 to 16 March 2025
- Published by Forma Edizioni, 2025
What You'll Discover
- DS+R's proposition of "InMotion architecture" — a framework built on mobility, flexibility, expansion, renewability, machinism, and intelligence as replacements for the fixed conventions of the discipline
- How the studio uses movement as a connective platform between art and architecture, collapsing the distinction between built structure and spatial installation
- The theoretical rejection of geo-fixity, rigidity, and passivity as defaults of architectural thinking, replaced by an architecture that responds and reconfigures
- Buildings conceived as transformers — structures with mobile elements that swell, turn, and shift configuration to accommodate changing occupancy and use
About the Author
Diller Scofidio + Renfro is a New York-based interdisciplinary studio whose practice spans architecture, urban design, and the performing arts. The studio is internationally recognised for works that interrogate the conventions of built space through movement, technology, and critical spatial thinking.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 144
- Dimensions: 240 x 170 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9788855211765
- Publisher: Forma Edizioni
- Publication Date: 2025
Perfect For: Architects and spatial designers with an interest in kinetic and adaptive structures, curators and critics working at the intersection of architecture and contemporary art, and students of experimental architectural practice.