Evoking through Design

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.

• About the Guest-Editor 05Matias Del CampoIntroduction Moods and Other Ontological Catastrophes 06Matias del CampoMood SwingsArchitectural Affective Disorder 14John McMorrough!ntimacyEragatory’s Experiments in Materiality, Deep Texture and Mood 20Isaie BlochAesthetics as PoliticsThe Khaleesi Tower on West 57th Street, NYC 26Mark Foster GageFiguring MoodThe Role of Stimmung in the Formal Approachof Heinrich Wölfflin andAlois Riegl 34Andrew SaundersLow AlbedoThe Mathilde Project 42Jason PayneOh, Vienna!An Interview with Wolf D Prix of Coop Himmelb(l)au 46Matias del CampoMoody ObjectsOre Fashion Stores and Blocks 54Matias del CampoThe Affects of RealismOr the Estrangement of the Background 58Michael YoungParrhesia-stases(The Preamble) 66François Roche with Camille LacadéeAffects of Intricate MassThe Strange Characteristics of the RMIT Mace and NGV Pavilion 72Roland SnooksExcessive ResolutionFrom Digital Streamlining to Computational Complexity 78Mario CarpoSomething Else, Something RawFrom ProtoHouse to Blokhut: The Aesthetics of Computational Assemblage 84Gilles RetsinXenoCellsIn the Mood for the Unseen 90Alisa AndrasekBad MoodOn Design and ‘Empathy’ 96Benjamin H BrattonEmanating ObjectsThe Atmospheric Ecosystems Generated by Gelatinous Orb and Buru Buru 102Michael LoverichMood, Posture and Rhythmic FeedbackMONAD Studio’s Sonic Experiments with 3D-Printed Musical Instruments 108Eric GoldembergThe Awesome and Capricious Language of Past, Present and Future Digital Moods 118Marjan CollettiCounterpoint The Sixth SenseThe Meaning of Atmosphere and Mood 126Juhani PallasmaaContributors 134