| Flexible

"If we want to build in a more flexible and varied manner, the architect must give up the idea of being personally responsible for every detail of every building he designs. He must design at a higher level of abstraction -- specify rules and boundary conditions, and leave the concrete instantiation to the end user or to chance".

Source: http://iaaa.nl/rs/autrearcE.html

"Flexible architecture adapts to new uses, responds to change rather than stagnating, and is motive rather than static".

Understanding how it has been conceived, designed, made, and used helps us understand its potential in solving current and future problems associated with technological, social, and economic change.

Flexible architecture: Geographical, chronological and cultural.

Contemporary design and Architecture is shaped by historical, cultural and social context.
The author used yurt (Mongolic home) and tatami as examples to demonstrate the use of flexible furnitures that can be responded to the users' living needs.

Source: http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2007/07/book-review-fle.php