Evoking Through Design Contemporary Moods in Architecture (Architectural Design 11-12.2016, Vol. 86 N°. 6)

Matias del Campo is a registered architect, designer, and Associate Professor of Architecture at the A Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. His obsessive explorations of contemporary moods are fueled by the opulent repertoire of materialization in nature together with cutting-edge technologies, as well as form, as a driving force in design at large. In 2003 he co-founded the architectural practice SPAN in Vienna, together with Sandra Manninger. The practice is best known for its speculative projects dealing with thesophisticated application of contemporary schools of thought in architectural production. Its award-winning projects are particularly informed by Baroque geometries, Romantic sensibilities and continental philosophy, and interrogate the possible contributions of these sensorial and spatial conditions, in combination with the manifold qualities of algorithm-driven methodologies, to the discipline of architecture. SPAN gained wide recognition for its winning competition entry for the Austrian Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, as well as for the new Brancusi Museum in Paris in2008. The practice’s work was featured at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale, at ArchiLab 2013 at the FRAC Centre, Orléans, France, at the 2008 and 2010 Architecture Biennale in Beijing, and in the 2011 solo show ‘Formations’ at the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna. It is also in the permanent collections of FRAC, MAK, the Albertina museum in Vienna and the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. In 2013, SPAN expanded its operations to Shanghai, where the practice iscurrently working on building projects of varying scales. Design and research awards include the Young-Talent Award for Experimental Tendencies in Architecture (from the Federal Chancellery of Austria), the Rudolph Schindler Scholarship (granted by the Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur (BMUKK) and MAK) ... Cover 1 Title Page 3 Contents 4 Copyright Page 6 About the Guest-Editor 7 Introduction Moods and Other Ontological Catastrophes 8 In a Contemporary Mood 10 Messy Things and Raw Figures 12 A Hidden Tool 13 In a Mood for Architecture 15 Notes 15 Mood Swings: Architectural Affective Disorder 16 Indicative Mood (Indicating a State of Reality) 18 Imperative Mood (Indicating a State of Command) 19 Interrogative Mood (Indicating a State of Questioning) 20 Subjunctive Mood (Indicating a Hypothetical State) 20 Notes 21 Intimacy: Eragatory’s Experiments in Materiality, Deep Texture and Mood 22 Material Maquillage 25 Textural Discontinuity 26 Distorting Effect and Reality 27 Aesthetics as Politics: The Khaleesi Tower on West 57th Street, NYC 28 Figuring Mood: The Role of Stimmung in the Formal Approach of Heinrich Wölfflin and Alois Riegl 36 Pythagorean Origins of Stimmung: Part-to-Whole in Architecture 38 Stimmung (Mood) and Einfühlung (Empathy) 39 Stimmung (Mood) and Kunstwollen (Will to Art) 40 Notes 43 Low Albedo: The Mathilde Project 44 Mathilde is Black 46 Mathilde is Compositionally and Structurally Loose 46 Mathilde is Monolithic 46 Mathilde’s Rate of Rotation About its Axis is Slow 47 Mathilde is Geometrically Ambivalent 47 A Note on Mood 47 Notes 47 Oh, Vienna!: An Interview with Wolf D Prix of Coop Himmelb(l)au 48 The Grand Utopian Project 51 The Heartbeat as Obsession 52 Open House: Entwurf is not Design 54 Notes 55 Moody Objects: Ore Fashion Stores and Blocks 56 Notes 59 The Affects of Realism: Or the Estrangement of the Background 60 The Rise of the Everyday 61 Abstract and Real 62 The Mediation of Sensation 63 Lo-Fi/Sci-Fi 64 The Everyday Reveal 67 Notes 67 Parrhesia-stases: (The Preamble) 68 The obscene is looking at you. 69 Obscene turned inside out into showing off its own guts. 71 Notes 73 Affects of Intricate Mass: The Strange Characteristics of the RMIT Mace and NGV Pavilion 74 Excessive Resolution: From Digital Streamlining to Computational Complexity 80 Old Maths 82 A New Computational Logic 84 The End of Ornament 85 Notes 85 Something Else, Something Raw: From ProtoHouse to Blokhut: The Aesthetics of Computational Assemblage 86 Something Else: Softkill ProtoHouse and Guggenheim Helsinki 88 Something Raw: Blokhut, HexStrata and Diamond Strata 89 Towards a New Spatial Experience 91 XenoCells: In the Mood for the Unseen 92 Notes 97 Bad Mood: On Design and ‘Empathy’ 98 EXHIBITIONS OF EMPATHY 99 EATING MOODY SPACE 100 (NOT) DESIGNING TRAPS 102 Notes 103 Emanating Objects: The Atmospheric Ecosystems Generated by Gelatinous Orb and Buru Buru 104 Mood, Posture and Rhythmic Feedback: MONAD Studio’s Sonic Experiments with 3D-Printed Musical Instruments 111 Rhythmic Perception as the Generator of Moods 112 The Pulsatile Quality of Spatial Atmospheres 115 MONAD Studio’s Architecture of Feedback 118 Feedback as the Visceral Experience of Atmosphere 118 Notes 119 The Awesome and Capricious Language of Past, Present and Future Digital Moods 120 Mood-Mapping: Temper, Climate and Modality 122 Temper of the Past: Capricious and Awesome 122 Climate of the Present: Awesome and Second-Order Digital 124 Modality of the Future: Second-Order Digital and Awesomer 125 Notes 127 Counterpoint The Sixth Sense: The Meaning of Atmosphere and Mood 128 Harmony as an Architectural Aspiration 129 Visual Elementarism and Embodied Understanding 132 Atmospheric Perception in Evolutionary Perspective 133 Mood and Emotion 135 Notes 135 Contributors 136 What is Architectural Design? 138 Forthcoming Titles 139 Back Cover 140 EULA 141 About the Guest-Editor 05Matias Del Campo Introduction Moods and Other Ontological Catastrophes 06Matias del Campo Mood Swings Architectural Affective Disorder 14John McMorrough !ntimacy Eragatory's Experiments in Materiality, Deep Texture and Mood 20Isaie Bloch Aesthetics as Politics The Khaleesi Tower on West 57th Street, NYC 26Mark Foster Gage Figuring Mood The Role of Stimmung in the Formal Approachof Heinrich Woelfflin andAlois Riegl 34Andrew Saunders Low Albedo The Mathilde Project 42Jason Payne Oh, Vienna! An Interview with Wolf D Prix of Coop Himmelb(l)au 46Matias del Campo Moody Objects Ore Fashion Stores and Blocks 54Matias del Campo The Affects of Realism Or the Estrangement of the Background 58Michael Young Parrhesia-stases (The Preamble) 66Francois Roche with Camille Lacadee Affects of Intricate Mass The Strange Characteristics of the RMIT Mace and NGV Pavilion 72Roland Snooks Excessive Resolution From Digital Streamlining to Computational Complexity 78Mario Carpo Something Else, Something Raw From ProtoHouse to Blokhut: The Aesthetics of Computational Assemblage 84Gilles Retsin XenoCells In the Mood for the Unseen 90Alisa Andrasek Bad Mood On Design and 'Empathy' 96Benjamin H Bratton Emanating Objects The Atmospheric Ecosystems Generated by Gelatinous Orb and Buru Buru 102Michael Loverich Mood, Posture and Rhythmic Feedback MONAD Studio's Sonic Experiments with 3D-Printed Musical Instruments 108Eric Goldemberg The Awesome and Capricious Language of Past, Present and Future Digital Moods 118Marjan Colletti Counterpoint The Sixth Sense The Meaning of Atmosphere and Mood 126Juhani Pallasmaa Contributors 134 'Evoking Through Design' 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. 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

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.

"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 explored through core essays on key themes: the historical 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."--Back cover