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<p>About the Guest-Editor 05<br /><i>Matias Del Campo</i></p> <p>Introduction Moods and Other Ontological Catastrophes 06<b><br /></b><i>Matias del Campo</i></p> <p><b>Mood Swings</b></p> <p>Architectural Affective Disorder 14<br /><i>John McMorrough</i></p> <p><b>!ntimacy</b></p> <p>Eragatory’s Experiments in Materiality, Deep Texture and Mood 20<br /><i>Isaie Bloch</i></p> <p><b>Aesthetics as Politics</b></p> <p>The Khaleesi Tower on West 57th Street, NYC 26<br /><i>Mark Foster Gage</i></p> <p><b>Figuring Mood</b></p> <p>The Role of <i>Stimmung </i>in the Formal Approachof Heinrich Wölfflin andAlois Riegl 34<br /><i>Andrew Saunders</i></p> <p><b>Low Albedo</b></p> <p>The Mathilde Project 42<br /><i>Jason Payne</i></p> <p><b>Oh, Vienna!</b></p> <p>An Interview with Wolf D Prix of Coop Himmelb(l)au 46<br /><i>Matias del Campo</i></p> <p><b>Moody Objects</b></p> <p>Ore Fashion Stores and Blocks 54<br /><i>Matias del Campo</i></p> <p><b>The Affects of Realism</b></p> <p>Or the Estrangement of the Background 58<br /><i>Michael Young</i></p> <p><b>Parrhesia-stases</b></p> <p>(The Preamble) 66<br /><i>François Roche with Camille Lacadée</i></p> <p><b>Affects of Intricate Mass</b></p> <p>The Strange Characteristics of the RMIT Mace and NGV Pavilion 72<br /><i>Roland Snooks</i></p> <p><b>Excessive Resolution</b></p> <p>From Digital Streamlining to Computational Complexity 78<br /><i>Mario Carpo</i></p> <p><b>Something Else, Something Raw</b></p> <p>From ProtoHouse to Blokhut: The Aesthetics of Computational Assemblage 84<br /><i>Gilles Retsin</i></p> <p><b>XenoCells</b></p> <p>In the Mood for the Unseen 90<br /><i>Alisa Andrasek</i></p> <p><b>Bad Mood</b></p> <p>On Design and ‘Empathy’ 96<br /><i>Benjamin H Bratton</i></p> <p><b>Emanating Objects</b></p> <p>The Atmospheric Ecosystems Generated by Gelatinous Orb and Buru Buru 102<br /><i>Michael Loverich</i></p> <p><b>Mood, Posture and Rhythmic Feedback</b></p> <p>MONAD Studio’s Sonic Experiments with 3D-Printed Musical Instruments 108<br /><i>Eric Goldemberg</i></p> <p><b>The Awesome and Capricious Language of Past, Present and Future Digital Moods 118<br /></b><i>Marjan Colletti</i></p> <p><b>Counterpoint </b><b>The Sixth Sense</b></p> <p>The Meaning of Atmosphere and Mood 126<br /><i>Juhani Pallasmaa</i></p> <p>Contributors 134</p>

<strong>Matias del Campo</strong> 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.

<p>There is an elemental conviction that great architecture must move us. It should trigger an emotional response: the drawing in of breath on entering a Gothic cathedral. But how is it possible to create highly contemporary architectural spaces that are infused with atmosphere, ambience and mood? <i>Evoking Through Design: Contemporary Moods in Architecture</i> highlights how up-to-date architectural technologies and techniques can be combined with traditional knowledge and design skills to enhance the sensorial qualities of space. Moods range from the lighthearted, the colourful, playful and happy to the painterly, the nebulous, the drama of chiaroscuro light and shade, the gloomy and the cavernous. </p> <p>A visually stunning title, Evoking Through Design features built work and speculative projects that highlight how contemporary practices are using devices such as spatial compositing, surface articulation, novel manipulations of matter and computational code in order to constitute spatial conditions radiating in delicate and sophisticated atmospheres. The theoretical foundations of the subject are also explored through core essays on key themes: the historic lineage of the evocation of atmosphere and moods in architecture; the more recent preoccupation with speculative realism in architecture; the human body and atmosphere; and picturesque techniques. </p> <p>Contributors: Benjamin H Bratton, Matias del Campo, Mario Carpo, Marjan Colletti, Eric Goldemberg, John McMorrough, Juhani Pallasmaa, Andrew Saunders, and Michael Young. </p> <p>Featured architects: Alisa Andrasek, Isaie Bloch, Mark Foster Gage, Jason Payne, Gilles Retsin, François Roche and Camille Lacadée, and Roland Snooks.</p>

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