Evoking through design : contemporary moods in architecture / guest-edited by Matias del Campo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Campo, Matias del, editor.

Series:

Architectural Design, 0003-8504 ; Number 244, Volume 86

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architectural design.

Architectural design--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (139 pages) : color illustrations, photographs.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] : John Wiley & Sons, 2016.

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Copyright Page

About the Guest-Editor

Introduction Moods and Other Ontological Catastrophes

In a Contemporary Mood

Messy Things and Raw Figures

A Hidden Tool

In a Mood for Architecture

Notes

Mood Swings: Architectural Affective Disorder

Indicative Mood (Indicating a State of Reality)

Imperative Mood (Indicating a State of Command)

Interrogative Mood (Indicating a State of Questioning)

Subjunctive Mood (Indicating a Hypothetical State)

Intimacy: Eragatory's Experiments in Materiality, Deep Texture and Mood

Material Maquillage

Textural Discontinuity

Distorting Effect and Reality

Aesthetics as Politics: The Khaleesi Tower on West 57th Street, NYC

Figuring Mood: The Role of Stimmung in the Formal Approach of Heinrich Wölfflin and Alois Riegl

Pythagorean Origins of Stimmung: Part-to-Whole in Architecture

Stimmung (Mood) and Einfühlung (Empathy)

Stimmung (Mood) and Kunstwollen (Will to Art)

Low Albedo: The Mathilde Project

Mathilde is Black

Mathilde is Compositionally and Structurally Loose

Mathilde is Monolithic

Mathilde's Rate of Rotation About its Axis is Slow

Mathilde is Geometrically Ambivalent

A Note on Mood

Oh, Vienna!: An Interview with Wolf D Prix of Coop Himmelb(l)au

The Grand Utopian Project

The Heartbeat as Obsession

Open House: Entwurf is not Design

Moody Objects: Ore Fashion Stores and Blocks

The Affects of Realism: Or the Estrangement of the Background

The Rise of the Everyday

Abstract and Real

The Mediation of Sensation

Lo-Fi/Sci-Fi

The Everyday Reveal

Parrhesia-stases: (The Preamble)

The obscene is looking at you.

Obscene turned inside out into showing off its own guts.

Notes.

Affects of Intricate Mass: The Strange Characteristics of the RMIT Mace and NGV Pavilion

Excessive Resolution: From Digital Streamlining to Computational Complexity

Old Maths

A New Computational Logic

The End of Ornament

Something Else, Something Raw: From ProtoHouse to Blokhut: The Aesthetics of Computational Assemblage

Something Else: Softkill ProtoHouse and Guggenheim Helsinki

Something Raw: Blokhut, HexStrata and Diamond Strata

Towards a New Spatial Experience

XenoCells: In the Mood for the Unseen

Bad Mood: On Design and 'Empathy'

EXHIBITIONS OF EMPATHY

EATING MOODY SPACE

(NOT) DESIGNING TRAPS

Emanating Objects: The Atmospheric Ecosystems Generated by Gelatinous Orb and Buru Buru

Mood, Posture and Rhythmic Feedback: MONAD Studio's Sonic Experiments with 3D-Printed Musical Instruments

Rhythmic Perception as the Generator of Moods

The Pulsatile Quality of Spatial Atmospheres

MONAD Studio's Architecture of Feedback

Feedback as the Visceral Experience of Atmosphere

The Awesome and Capricious Language of Past, Present and Future Digital Moods

Mood-Mapping: Temper, Climate and Modality

Temper of the Past: Capricious and Awesome

Climate of the Present: Awesome and Second-Order Digital

Modality of the Future: Second-Order Digital and Awesomer

Counterpoint The Sixth Sense: The Meaning of Atmosphere and Mood

Harmony as an Architectural Aspiration

Visual Elementarism and Embodied Understanding

Atmospheric Perception in Evolutionary Perspective

Mood and Emotion

Contributors

What is Architectural Design?

Forthcoming Titles

Back Cover

EULA.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 19, 2017).

ISBN:

9781119099574

1119099579

OCLC:

979992260