In this book the reader will find the full range of
current container architecture projects - **one container for a
temporary exhibition Hall, or thousand containers for a football
stadium.
**
In an ever-changing world with its hybrid forms of living and working,
this book presents a collection of remarkable and carefully selected
container buildings. Invented in the 1950s by Malcom McLean, these plain
steel boxes with corrugated profiles revolutionized the worldwide trade
sector. Furthermore, these huge receptacles for storing and transporting
cargo have found their way into architecture to become an essential part
of global building culture.
Ever more astonishing architectural applications and design experiments
are based on these standardized, strictly geometrically conceived units.
Their imaginatively designed shells are just as versatile as their use:
sometimes with original, rough surfaces with traces of use that tell a
story, sometimes with a curtain facade made of wood and large-scale
glazing, or even as a purist composition with a sophisticated light
installation.
