Evoking Through Design: Contempory Moods In Architecture

This issue will be 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. The theoretical foundations for the theme will also be established through key essays: the historic lineage of the evocation of atmosphere and moods in architecture; the more recent interest in phenomenology and perception in architecture; the interaction of the human body and atmosphere; and picturesque rendering techniques.

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.