Architecture has traditionally been understood as the art of creating permanence. A building is designed, constructed and then expected to remain essentially the same while life changes around it. People arrive and leave, seasons change, sunlight moves, communities evolve and human emotions shift, yet the architecture itself often remains frozen. Kinetic architecture begins with a radically different question: what if architecture could participate in change rather than merel

Written by Moshe Katz Architect Architecture has always been obsessed with permanence. We design a house, define its rooms, determine its boundaries, build its walls, and expect life to adapt itself to what we have created. A two bedroom apartment remains a two bedroom apartment. A four bedroom house remains a four bedroom house even when three of those bedrooms have been empty for twenty years. The strange contradiction is that while human life is constantly changing, the ar