Exploring movement in architecture may seem like an oxymoron, an irreconcilable conflict and a source of disorientation around all that we know and perceive of the fixed, heavy, slow, anchored-to-the-ground built environment. Through a selection of fascinating projects from the 1930s to today, divided into four categories, the New York-based design studio Diller Scofidio+Renfro curated ‘Restless Architecture’ for the MAXXI in Rome. Down to the exhibition design itself, this show reaffirmed the desire to free architecture from stasis while in dialogue with the dynamic spaces designed by Zaha Hadid, an architect who turned the quest for movement into the hallmark of her work.

If we live in a constantly moving world, why should architecture stand still? Elizabeth Diller, co-founder of DS+R, talked to us about how they were able to answer this question.