Things That Move: A Hinterland in Architectural History

Join us for the launch of Things That Move

We tend to think of architecture as a practice in permanence, but what if we looked instead for an architecture of transience? In Things That Move, Tim Anstey does just that: rather than assuming that architecture is, at a certain level, stationary, he considers how architecture moves subjects (referring to its emotive potential in the experience it creates); how it moves objects (referring to how it choreographs bodies in motion); and how it is itself moved (referring to the mixture of materials, laws, affordances, and images.

“What a feast! Things That Move advances a very profound argument about what we talk about when we talk about architecture, and does so with delicious, page-turning narrative brio. A book to be at once devoured and savored.”—Richard Wittman, University of California at Santa Barbara

Tim Anstey is Chair of the PhD Program at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. His coedited publications include Architecture and Authorship (2008), Images of Egypt (2018), and Warburg Models: Buildings as Bilderfahrzeuge (2023). His curated exhibitions include “Images of Egypt” (Oslo Museum of Cultural History, 2018), “Warburg Models: Buildings as Bilderfahrzeuge” (Warburg-Haus, Hamburg, 2023), and “Warburg Models: The Architecture of the Intinerant Archive” (Architectural Association, London, 2024).

We are delighted to welcome Tim and his guests to the AA Bookshop to celebrate the launch of this new publication in a conversation with Adrian Forty.

The book will be sold at the special price of £30 (RRP £38)