Curated by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, one of the world’s most influential design studios, this exhibition investigates movement as an internal property of architecture. Alongside DS+R’s own project, The Shed at Hudson Yards, the showcase features the Nakagin Capsule Tower, Makoko Floating School, Montgomery County Rotary Jail, Frei Otto and the Institute for Lightweight Structures and Ark Nova Concert Hall

The firm’s curatorial statement explains, “The postwar era introduced a new resistance to architecture’s stubborn rigidity. Motivated by pragmatic and utopian ideals, architecture has aspired to free itself from stasis. Four principles frame this ambition and the exhibition: mobility, adaptability, operability and ecodynamism.

Mobility allows buildings to physically relocate, whether forced to move to avoid demolition or transported elsewhere by choice. Adaptability enables buildings to reconfigure and absorb technological or programmatic changes wrought by economic or social developments. Operability allows buildings to function like machines, tuned to the needs of their inhabitants to serve individual or collective purposes. While most buildings form an airtight seal against the elements, ecodynamism integrates technologies to create supple interfaces between a building and its environment.”