Things That Move: A Hinterland in Architectural History

“There are disciplinary things—the charted boundaries of what architecture is in terms of its discourse. There are physical things—objects in transition; materials moving around the world. There are semantic things—examples of word uses and slippages with architectural implications. There are image things—representations, their circulation and their architectural significance. And there are idea things—concepts that change location, portent, in ways that inflect architectural contexts. This is a history of mobile interiors and of transported objects; one of sliding meanings, disciplinary parallels, wandering images.”