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Designing Atmospheres: Theory And Science, Kory Beighle, Elisabetta Canepa, Bob Condia, Zakaria Djebbara, Harry Francis Mallgrave Jan 2023

Designing Atmospheres: Theory And Science, Kory Beighle, Elisabetta Canepa, Bob Condia, Zakaria Djebbara, Harry Francis Mallgrave

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This book was born as the legacy of the “Designing Atmospheres: Theory and Science” Symposium, an Interfaces event of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA), sponsored by the EU’s Horizon 2020 MSCA Program — RESONANCES Project, the Perkins Eastman Studio, and the Architecture Department at Kansas State University. The event was hosted in the College of Architecture, Planning and Design (APDesign), Kansas State University (K-State), Manhattan, KS, on March 28, 2023. Recent advances in science confirm many of the architects’ deep-rooted intuitions, improving knowledge about the perception of space and the meaning of architectural and urban design. This volume …


Atmosphere(S) For Architects: Between Phenomenology And Cognition, Michael A. Arbib, Elisabetta Canepa, Bob Condia, Federico De Matteis, Tonino Griffero, Robert Lamb Hart, Mark Alan Hewitt, Suchi Reddy, Mikaela Wynne Jan 2023

Atmosphere(S) For Architects: Between Phenomenology And Cognition, Michael A. Arbib, Elisabetta Canepa, Bob Condia, Federico De Matteis, Tonino Griffero, Robert Lamb Hart, Mark Alan Hewitt, Suchi Reddy, Mikaela Wynne

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Interfaces 5 was born to home the dialogue that the neuroscientist Michael A. Arbib and the philosopher Tonino Griffero started at the end of 2021 about atmospheric experiences, striving to bridge the gap between cognitive science’s perspective and the (neo)phenomenological one. This conversation progressed due to Pato Paez’s offer to participate in the webinar “Architectural Atmospheres: Phenomenology, Cognition, and Feeling,” a roundtable hosted by The Commission Project (TCP) within the Applied Neuroaesthetics initiative. The event ran online on May 20, 2022. Bob Condia moderated the panel discussion between Suchi Reddy, Michael A. Arbib, and Tonino Griffero. The RESONANCES project was …


Jason Herbeck. Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature And Literary Identity In The French Caribbean. Liverpool Up, 2017; 2020., Nathan H. Dize Jul 2022

Jason Herbeck. Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature And Literary Identity In The French Caribbean. Liverpool Up, 2017; 2020., Nathan H. Dize

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Review of Jason Herbeck. Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean. Liverpool UP, 2017; 2020. x + 330 pp.


Generators Of Architectural Atmosphere, Elisabetta Canepa, Bob Condia Jan 2022

Generators Of Architectural Atmosphere, Elisabetta Canepa, Bob Condia

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This book was born as the legacy of the “Generators of Architectural Atmosphere” Symposium, an Interfaces event of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA), sponsored by the EU’s Horizon 2020 MSCA Program — RESONANCES Project, the Perkins Eastman Studio, and the 2020 Regnier Chair. The event was hosted in the College of Architecture, Planning and Design (APDesign), Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, on April 12, 2022. Recent advances in science are confirming many of the architect’s expert intuitions opening new doors to the perception of space and the meaning of architectural design. This volume collects three essays: “The Atmospheric …


Interior Materiality, Kutay Guler Sep 2021

Interior Materiality, Kutay Guler

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The knowledge of materials and finishes is the bridge that links conceptual design to real-world application. It is among the core content of virtually all interior architecture/design curricula, moreover, access to up-to-date information on emerging technologies and trends is a key exigency for the contemporary designer. Accordingly, this book is authored to form a comprehensive resource for the “hows” and “whys” surrounding the functional and aesthetic contributions of a wide selection of materials and finishes used in multiple spatial design contexts. The knowledge base presented here is not only useful in shaping spatial experience, ensuring occupant well-being, and employing sustainable …


Affordances And The Potential For Architecture, Bob Condia, Andrea Jelić, Harry Francis Mallgrave, Sarah Robinson, James R. Hamilton Oct 2020

Affordances And The Potential For Architecture, Bob Condia, Andrea Jelić, Harry Francis Mallgrave, Sarah Robinson, James R. Hamilton

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Affordances and the Potential for Architecture divulges our engagement with the built environment is a deeply rooted experience. In a biological and philosophical sense, it reveals that the mind is inseparable from the body, just as the body is inseparable from its environment. The world displays itself before us as rife with potential movements, activities, engagements, for which we continuously rehearse the myriad possibilities and choose the best course of action in the moment. It defines our phenomenological natures through this readiness-for-action, and thereby suggests we will improve the spaces, buildings, and landscapes that we inhabit by mastering how we …


Meaning In Architecture: Affordances, Atmosphere And Mood, Bob Condia, Michael Arbib, Colin Ellard, Brent Chamberlain, Kevin Rooney Apr 2020

Meaning In Architecture: Affordances, Atmosphere And Mood, Bob Condia, Michael Arbib, Colin Ellard, Brent Chamberlain, Kevin Rooney

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Abstract: Meaning in Architecture: Affordances, Atmosphere and Mood, began as a public forum about human awareness of building, specifically speaking to the significance of affordances, embodied simulation theory, atmosphere and mood. It is herewith presented in copy form for broader distribution. An exchange between scientists and architects, this symposium was the inaugural Interface event of ANFA (the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture, Salk Institute) held 17 April 2018 in the Regnier Forum of APDesign, Kansas State University. The authors for Meaning in Architecture: Affordances, Atmosphere and Mood will escort you to the intersection of deep brain function, as studied by …


Grassland Interview: Drawing The Prairie Workshop, Katie Kingery-Page, Erin Wiersma Jan 2020

Grassland Interview: Drawing The Prairie Workshop, Katie Kingery-Page, Erin Wiersma

Center for Engagement and Community Development

"Drawing the Prairie Workshop” is driven by a central question: How do we authentically bring arts and sciences together to promote understanding of grasslands? The project brings Wiersma’s large scale drawings on paper together with recorded interviews of scientists and land managers collected by Kingery-Page. While this artistic collaboration is experienced in galleries, the project also engages people of the region, in a variety of settings, to build their understanding of grasslands through drawing of grassland plants.Grasslands provide essential ecosystem services, such as groundwater recharge, water quality improvement, pollinator habitat, and carbon sequestration. But worldwide, the outlook for conservation of …


Reviving Troost: Reactivating Vacant Lots Through Urban Acupuncture, Ayana Belk Apr 2019

Reviving Troost: Reactivating Vacant Lots Through Urban Acupuncture, Ayana Belk

Kansas State University Undergraduate Research Conference

Modern day cities are riddled with vacant lots that attract illicit activity and give a negative impression of the surrounding neighborhood. Vacant lots are born from an urban history of an increasingly privatized public realm and growing socio-political and economic polarization (Foo 2014, 176). Suburbanization, redlining, and urban renewal disproportionately affected lower income neighborhoods, which are rarely able to rebuild without outside financial assistance. “Urban acupuncture” is a theory that views cities as living, breathing organisms and a variety of projects can serve as “needles” that revitalize the community by healing the parts. When applied correctly this theory can help …


Empowering Women Through The Design Of Domestic Violence Shelters, Alexa Keim Apr 2019

Empowering Women Through The Design Of Domestic Violence Shelters, Alexa Keim

Kansas State University Undergraduate Research Conference

According to a report published by The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey in 2017, one in four women are sexually assaulted, physically assaulted and/or stalked by an intimate partner. According to the same survey, these women feel fearful, unsafe and show symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Supportive housing, in the form of domestic violence shelters, provide these women with a physical environment to combat their situation and to promote their future independence (Pable, 2013, p. 269; Phenice, L. & Griffore, R., 2013). Environmental factors can have an impact on women's psychological sense of safety in this time of …


Addiction, Larry Bell Jan 2018

Addiction, Larry Bell

Oz

I have always considered that my work was my teacher. I follow the work. My priority has always been to keep working no matter what. No one needs this kind of study except for the person doing the study. It is not a product, it is the evidence of a series of investigations. I am addicted to working in this manner.


Authentic Space, Elizabeth Turk Jan 2018

Authentic Space, Elizabeth Turk

Oz

There is space between well-worded explanations and fully comprehen - sible meaning. It is in this space that I find “authenticity.” It is here that content is “felt” before intellectualized. My need to speak in a language addressing the layers, the paradox in living, leads me to art. This is authentic. Carving calms me. The focus gives order to thought and emotion. The artifact, the sculpture that remains, is a structure so extreme it seems to defy the constraints inherent to its own material.


Footsteps, Tom Leader Jan 2018

Footsteps, Tom Leader

Oz

It’s fascinating to learn the stories of how people ended up in the work they do and why....and then how their work changed over their lives. More often than not relationships to mothers and fathers have a lot to do with it. Trying to please them, rebel against them, outdo them, live up to them, remember them. As a teenager, I wanted to write fiction and model myself after Hemingway. I thought I might be good at it and I knew my mother would be gratified, partly because of her own ambitions that weren’t realized.


An Interview With Fuensanta Nieto, Fuensanta Nieto Jan 2018

An Interview With Fuensanta Nieto, Fuensanta Nieto

Oz

The vision of our architecture resides in the strength of the ideas, the close relationship with a place, the search for natural light, the creation of a complex space as a combinatory of a limited number of simple elements. Te mission of our work, on the other hand, refects not only my personal interpretation, but also afects the users as well as the city or the landscape.


Li Hui: From A Nightclub To Eternity, Phil Zheng Cai Jan 2018

Li Hui: From A Nightclub To Eternity, Phil Zheng Cai

Oz

The connection between authenticity and Hui’s work can be traced to his understanding of fine art creation in relation to religions. he believes the ability to create is exclusively anthropic. He argues that artists are playing more of a role to replace God in what they create, they invent, and influence. This is the pinnacle of authenticity.


Authenticity And Values, Fran Silvestre Jan 2018

Authenticity And Values, Fran Silvestre

Oz

In our case, it is not a matter of pri - oritizing our vision or of seeking authenticity in each of the projects. For us, dialogue is very important, which is always present, since the work becomes part of the identity of those who inhabit it. It is an unmistakable expression of your personality or your corporate culture. Likewise, in each project we look for continuity. Continuity with both the environ - ment that we must respect, as well as understood from a spatial and temporal point of view, valuing the architecture that is capable of go - ing through …


Sculpting Public Space, Janet Echelman Jan 2018

Sculpting Public Space, Janet Echelman

Oz

It’s different all the time. Many commissions have a pre-established site and a preestablished budget and timeline, and they are searching for an artist. So, in those situations, I come in almost as a lay-person’s anthropologist—a kind of amateur anthropologist—where I explore, and interview, and sketch, and photograph as a means of trying to understand local identity or aspirations for local identity and local materials.


The Material Inquiry Of Construction, Lawrence Scarpa Jan 2018

The Material Inquiry Of Construction, Lawrence Scarpa

Oz

The event of a job coming into the office and its completion occurred with such rapid succession that the energy of the design was naturally sustained through the end of construction, buoyed by the adrenaline that comes from producing at a blistering pace in combination of the direct physical contact with the actual materials of that construction. Our current state of practice is quite different. The size of firm, number of projects, their complexity, and associated duration has all increased. Rather than completing buildings in months, projects now frequently span four, five, or six years from inception to completion. The …


Table Of Contents And Prologue, Christian Berger, Jason Jirele, Jeremy Migneco Jan 2018

Table Of Contents And Prologue, Christian Berger, Jason Jirele, Jeremy Migneco

Oz

Editorial board, table of contents, and a prologue from the editors


The Photos You Don’T Take, Stay With You Forever, Driely S. Jan 2018

The Photos You Don’T Take, Stay With You Forever, Driely S.

Oz

The photos I didn’t take, wouldn’t let me get out of bed today. They do this to me often. Every time I think I have developed a coping mechanism, they sneak up on me. The photos I did not take are so real in my vision, that they become an actual force-presence in my daily existence. I see them every damn day. And sooner or later, I feel them too. Their insistence hurts me so. And as much as I try and use them to my advantage, the photos I did not take haunt me forever.


Real Fake, Robert Mangurian, Mary-Ann Ray Jan 2018

Real Fake, Robert Mangurian, Mary-Ann Ray

Oz

For this issue of Oz, dedicated to authenticity, a thought came to mind that we might explore one of its antonyms—fake. The moral overtones of faking or duplicating, especially regarding the production of creative practice, are most definitely in place in western culture.


Building Between Tides, Julie Brook Jan 2018

Building Between Tides, Julie Brook

Oz

In my early thirties I wished to understand my own artistic language better. I chose to live on an uninhabited coastline on the west coast of Jura, North West Scotland, a five-hour walk across moorland. I wanted live in and study the landscape in depth, to discover how I would respond to this environment and how it would influence me over time. To be in solitude. The idea had come fully formed to me when walking and camping the previous year. Taking shelter from a storm I found a cliff arch of cathedral-like proportions and slept the night there, pitching …


The Case For An Authentic Growth, Yen Ong Jan 2018

The Case For An Authentic Growth, Yen Ong

Oz

I have sold out since I graduated a little more than two decades ago. My idealistic, younger self would have patently condemned the choices my present self has made since then. Idealism would be the righteous position for a student of architecture to take, one who has been fed stories of famed architects realizing their architectural vision in no other way but theirs, proclaiming an absolute authenticity to their creation, or opt - ing to be financially bankrupt rather than to compromise their talents in service of uninspiring commissions. That was then, and this is now: the authentic identity that …


Context From Place, Peter Alexander Jan 2018

Context From Place, Peter Alexander

Oz

Peter Alexander casts pieces out of resin, a interest that bloomed unintentionally but something he always felt positive was for him. "Instinctively I would do something, and that would make me want to do something else...[or] something continual to keep going," and for that reason he has continued using the same medium for nearly 50 years. To him, it feels "so natural that it was the only thing I got really excited about, and that was its own authenticity."


Activating Architecture, Ben Van Berkel Jan 2018

Activating Architecture, Ben Van Berkel

Oz

An interview with Ben van Berkel reveals his "[firm belief] is that architecture should primarily be driven by relevance. Design that is truly relevant enables engagement, empowerment and inspiration through urban and architectural conditions. Architects can achieve this by creating choice, chance and a variety of different experiences for the user.


Do Ho Suh, Sarah Newman Jan 2018

Do Ho Suh, Sarah Newman

Oz

Do Ho Suh’s use of fabric has a number of different origins. Most directly, he was looking to create a “suitcase home,” that he could pack up and take with him and erect anywhere in an attempt to live in the presence of the places he had left behind. Fabric is light and packable, and it has an ethereal, translucent quality that hints at the structure’s transience; it is a representation of a memory that still feels like memory.


A Tribute Of 4 X 10 Meters, Vanessa Beecroft Jan 2018

A Tribute Of 4 X 10 Meters, Vanessa Beecroft

Oz

The first attempt to make an artwork, one I considered being able to belong to contemporary art, was my food diary. During a period of 10 years I recorded everything I ate daily. While drawings didn’t seem qualifying for what I identify as an avant-garde tool, the diary and its immediate reference did.


Contributors, Christian Berger, Jason Jirele, Jeremy Migneco Jan 2018

Contributors, Christian Berger, Jason Jirele, Jeremy Migneco

Oz

Biographical information on contributors to volume 40, and a list of benefactors and donors


Communicating With The Other 99%, Bella Janssens, Bella Janssens Jan 2018

Communicating With The Other 99%, Bella Janssens, Bella Janssens

Oz

Our understanding or interest in the design process is not that the architects are a purely service industry, but that the best ideas come out of collaboration, so inevitably desires from both sides of the table are going to not only be satisfied, but something completely new will be made from that combination


Spatial Inquiry, Annie Han, Daniel Mihalyo Jan 2018

Spatial Inquiry, Annie Han, Daniel Mihalyo

Oz

We have always found it difficult to practice architecture in the way it was handed down to us by the professional guild and still experience and create architecture the way we found it to be meaningful. It seems to us that space and structure created for no further reason than to be perceived and experienced is a wonderful pursuit which has little commercial use in this cultural economy.