AD 204 EXUBERANCE – New Virtuosity in Contemporary Architecture

Description

This title of AD heralds a new era of exuberance in digital design. Having overcome the alienation and otherness of the cyber, having mastered the virtual qualities and protocols of the parametric, having achieved the intricacy and elegance of the digital, and having fully embraced the potential of 3d computer software and cad/cam manufacturing technologies, it is now time for architects to show off!
Conjure up the extravagance of furniture design, the abundance of cgi in Hollywood, the profuseness of bio-techno ornamentation or the lavishness of Middle-Eastern and Asian super-urbanism. Exuberance not only celebrates new Baroque theatricality, formal sophistication and digital virtuosity; it also debates a plethora of joyful and intelligent ways in which experimental architecture manages to cope with the contemporary turmoil in global politics, economics and ecology.

CONTENTS

• Helen Castle: Editorial
• Marjan Colletti: About the Guest-Editor
• Marjan Colletti: Introduction – Exuberance and Digital Virtuosity
• Marjan Colletti: DigitAlia – the Other Digital Practice / Marjan Colletti
• Ali Rahim: Interiorities
• Yael Reisner: Diving into the Depth-Scape: Exuberance and Personalities
• Judith Clark: Exuberant Couture
• Robert Harbison: Baroque Exuberance: Frivolity or Disquiet?
• Wolf D. Prix: Let’s Rock over Barock
• Peter Cook: The New Delfina
• Marjan Colletti: OrnaMental POrnamentation: The Abstract and the Exuberant Body of Ornamentation
• Neil Spiller: Surrealistic Exuberance – Dark Matters
• Hernan Diaz Alonso: Exuberance, I Don’t  Know; Excess, I Like
• Tom Wiscombe of EMERGENT: Extreme Integration
• Kjetil Trædal Thorsen and Robert Greenwood, Snøhetta: Relying on Interdependencies: Snøhetta in the Middle East
• CJ Lim: Cultivating Smartcities
• Peter Murray: Leading Lady: Monica Pidgeon, Editor of Architectural Design, 1946 to 1975
• Jayne Merkel: Interior Eye – Morphosis Architects’ Cooper Union Academic Building, New York
• David Littlefield: Building Profile – Winter Olympic Buildings, Vancouver 2010
• Fleur Watson and Martyn Hook: Practice Profile Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt)
• Michael Weinstock: Unit Factor – Emergence and the Forms of Metabolism
• Mike Wells and Ken Yeang: Yeang’s Eco-Files – Biodiversity Targets as the Basis for Green Design
• Neil Spiller: Spiller’s Bits – Strategic Plots and Spatial Blooms
• Will McLean: McLean’s Nuggets
• Valentina Croci: Userscape  Urban Interactive

144 pages, color ills / 21 x 27,5 cm / English