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Evoking Through Design: Contemporary Moods in Architecture is visually stunning, featuring built work and speculative projects, which highlight how contemporary practices are using devices such as spatial compositing, surface articulation and novel manipulations of materials in order to constitute spatial conditions radiating in delicate and sophisticated atmospheres.
Contributors: Benjamin Bratton, Jeffrey Kipnis, Neil Leach, Silvia Levin, Frederic Migayrou, Juhani Pallasmaa, David Ruy, and Mario Carpo.
Architects: Phillip Beesley, Marjan Colletti, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Evan Douglis, Michael Hansmayer, Steven Holl,Ferda Kolatan, Sean Lally, Greg Lynn and Peter Zumthor.
List of contents
About the Guest-Editor 05
Matias Del Campo Introduction Moods and Other Ontological Catastrophes 06
Matias del Campo Mood Swings Architectural Affective Disorder 14
John McMorrough !ntimacy Eragatory's Experiments in Materiality, Deep Texture and Mood 20
Isaie Bloch Aesthetics as Politics The Khaleesi Tower on West 57th Street, NYC 26
Mark Foster Gage Figuring Mood The Role of
Stimmung in the Formal Approachof Heinrich Wölfflin andAlois Riegl 34
Andrew Saunders Low Albedo The Mathilde Project 42
Jason Payne Oh, Vienna! An Interview with Wolf D Prix of Coop Himmelb(l)au 46
Matias del Campo Moody Objects Ore Fashion Stores and Blocks 54
Matias del Campo The Affects of Realism Or the Estrangement of the Background 58
Michael Young Parrhesia-stases (The Preamble) 66
François Roche with Camille Lacadée Affects of Intricate Mass The Strange Characteristics of the RMIT Mace and NGV Pavilion 72
Roland Snooks Excessive Resolution From Digital Streamlining to Computational Complexity 78
Mario Carpo Something Else, Something Raw From ProtoHouse to Blokhut: The Aesthetics of Computational Assemblage 84
Gilles Retsin XenoCells In the Mood for the Unseen 90
Alisa Andrasek Bad Mood On Design and 'Empathy' 96
Benjamin H Bratton Emanating Objects The Atmospheric Ecosystems Generated by Gelatinous Orb and Buru Buru 102
Michael Loverich Mood, Posture and Rhythmic Feedback MONAD Studio's Sonic Experiments with 3D-Printed Musical Instruments 108
Eric Goldemberg The Awesome and Capricious Language of Past, Present and Future Digital Moods 118
Marjan Colletti Counterpoint The Sixth Sense The Meaning of Atmosphere and Mood 126
Juhani Pallasmaa Contributors 134
About the author
Matias del Campo is Associate Professor of Architecture at Taubman College, University of Michigan. Chilean-born and Austrian by nationality, Matias graduated with distinction from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria. In 2003 he co-founded SPAN Architects in Vienna, together with Sandra Manninger. The practice is best known for its sophisticated application of contemporary technologies in architectural production. Its award-winning architectural designs are informed by Baroque geometries, romantic atmospheres and biological systems.
Summary
Evoking Through Design: Contemporary Moods in Architecture is visually stunning, featuring built work and speculative projects, which highlight how contemporary practices are using devices such as spatial compositing, surface articulation and novel manipulations of materials in order to constitute spatial conditions radiating in delicate and sophisticated atmospheres.
Contributors: Benjamin Bratton, Jeffrey Kipnis, Neil Leach, Silvia Levin, Frederic Migayrou, Juhani Pallasmaa, David Ruy, and Mario Carpo.
Architects: Phillip Beesley, Marjan Colletti, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Evan Douglis, Michael Hansmayer, Steven Holl,Ferda Kolatan, Sean Lally, Greg Lynn and Peter Zumthor.
