This issue of AD combines contemporary projects and interviews alongside analytical essays, which provide a more penetrating view of atmosphere as an interior condition. 'Atmosphere' is an original and compelling theme that will have immediacy for designers and students alike. It compiles an exciting list of international designers and contributors, such as Philip Stark and Wolf Prix While atmosphere is frequently referred to in magazines, journals, books and among designers themselves, it remains for the most part, allusive and unscrutinised.
Table of Contents
Editorial (Helen Castle).Introduction: In the Mi(d)st Of (Julieanna Preston).This is Not Entertainment: Experiencing the Dream House (Ted Krueger).Making Sense: The MIX House (Joel Sanders and Karen Van Lengen).The Aesthetics of Air: Experiments in Visualising the Invisible (Malte Wagenfeld).Domestic Afterlives: Rachel Whiteread's Ghost (Rachel Carley).Olafur Eliasson and the Circulation of Affects and Percepts: In Conversation (Helene Frichot).Affecting Data (Julieanna Preston).Multivalent Performance in the Work of Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis (Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki and David J Lewis).Condensation: Regionalism and the Room in John Yeon's Watzek House (Mary Anne Beecher).Walter Pichler's House: Next to the Smithy: Atmosphere and Ground (Paul James).Bridging the Threshold of Interior and Landscape: An Interview with Petra Blaisse (Lois Weinthal).Off the Peg: The Bespoke Interiors of Ben Kelly (Graeme Brooker and Sally Stone).Living with Freud (Lilian Chee).Spatial Hardware and Software.Rochus Urban Hinkel.The Atmosphere of Interior Urbanism: OMA at IIT (Charles Rice).Artists of the Floating World: SANAA, Niedermayr and the Construction of Atmosphere (Hugh Campbell).Interior Eye.SANAA's New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (Jayne Merkel).Building Profile.Watford Music Centre (David Littlefield).Practice ProfileArup AssociatesJay MerrickUnit FactorCan Architectural Design Be Research? (Michael Weinstock).Spiller's BitsArchitects as Hairdressers (Neil Spiller).Yeang's Eco-FilesBiofuel from Algae (Ken Yeang).McLean's Nuggets (Will McLean).UserscapeSpace on EarthA Virtual Portal Between the Earth and Outer Space (Valentina Croci).Site LinesPermeating Walls (Howard Watson).
Author Biography
Julieanna Preston's life as an academic, researcher and design practitioner spans architecture, landscape architecture, furniture design, construction, carpentry, interior design, urban design, and digital fabrication. Published internationally, she has most recently contributed towards advancing interior design with a book, INTIMUS: Interior Design Theory Reader (John Wiley & Sons, 2006), which she co-edited with Mark Taylor. She is internationally recognised as a champion of design as research through her creative and textual works on the architectural aesthetics of seismic strengthening (see Moments of Resistance, Archadia, 2000) and new urban furnishings derived from garment construction (see Architectural Design Review, RMIT, 2005, and AD: Surface Consciousness, Wiley, 2002). She works and lives in Wellington, New Zealand.
