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.
Table 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
