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Evoking through Design: Contemporary Moods in Architecture

ISBN: 978-1-119-09958-1

November 2016

136 pages

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Description

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.

About the Author
Matias del Campo 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.