2024-11-21T14:32:06-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150057955/screen-print-66-hans-hollein-s-mobile-office-and-the-new-workers-reality Mackenzie Goldberg 2018-04-05T09:00:00-04:00 >2018-04-04T19:16:39-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/at/att2yqb26k3dzh3t.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>In 1969, decades before winning the <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/51168/pritzker-prize" target="_blank">Pritzker Prize</a>, Austrian architect <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/98619449/in-memoriam-pritzker-winner-hans-hollein-dies-at-age-80" target="_blank">Hans Hollein</a> built an inflatable mobile office that could be carried around and set up practically anywhere. Prophesying what would later become a laptop, the project&mdash;part pneumatic architecture, part performance, part video art&mdash;involved Hollein landing a small airplane on a runway and setting up the portable, plastic space, in which he could be seen talking on the telephone and typing.</p>