Future Details of Architecture

Mark Garcia is a consultant, researcher and academic. He is currently a lecturer, teaching Unit 4, the architectural design studio in the School of Architecture, Design and Construction at the University of Greenwich in London. He has held academic teaching and management posts at St. Antony's College (Oxford University) and in the Departments of Architecture and Industrial Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art (RCA), where he supervised M.A, MPhil and PhD students. He has worked in industry as a manager for Skidmore Owings and Merrill (SOM) and Branson Coates Architecture (BCA). Mark has authored and edited a number of publications including Architextiles, AD (Wiley, 2006), Patterns of Architecture, AD (Wiley, 2010) and The Diagrams of Architecture, AD Reader (Wiley, 2010).

• EDITORIAL 5Helen CastleABOUT THE GUEST-EDITOR 6Mark GarciaSPOTLIGHT 8Visual highlights of the issueINTRODUCTION: Histories, Theories and Futures of the Details of Architecture14Mark GarciaThe Grand Work of Fiction: The Detail as Narrative 26Edward FordDetails Around the Corner 36Christian SchittichTectonic Articulation: Making Engineering Logics Speak 44Patrik SchumacherFuture Details of UNStudio Architectures: An Interview with Ben van Berkel 52Mark GarciaClose Up 62Hernan Diaz AlonsoUn détail de ce qui change: Function of a Function 68Peter MacapiaFuture Landscapes of Spatial Details: An Interview with Philippe Rahm 78Mark GarciaThe Rise of the ‘Invisible Detail’: Ubiquitous Computing and the ‘Minimum Meaningful’ 86Carlo Ratti and Matthew Claudel Information, Complexity and the Detail 92Dennis R SheldenGrowing Details 98David Benjamin, Danil Nagy and Carlos OlguinDNA disPlay: Programmable Bioactive Materials Using CNC Patterning 104Skylar Tibbits, Lina Kara’in, Joseph Schaeffer, Helena de Puig, Jose Gomez-Marquez and Anna YoungThe Post-Epistemological Details of Oceanic Ontologies 112Rachel ArmstrongDetailing the Walled Garden for Lebbeus 118Neil SpillerThe Gold Mine: A Ludic Architecture 128Nic ClearCOUNTERPOINT: The Architectural Detail and the Fear of Commitment 134Mark BurryCONTRIBUTOR 142

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