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Guest-edited by YAEL REISNER ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN September/October 2019 Profile No 261 Beauty Matters 05/2019 Introduction About the Beauty in Guest-Editor Architecture Architecture and Beauty Not a Luxury – Yael Reisner Only a Necessity A Symbiotic Relationship Semir Zeki 05 Yael Reisner 14 06 Truth and Beauty The Return The Role of Aesthetics of Beauty in Mathematics and Physics Driving a Wedge Between Objects Robbert Dijkgraaf and Qualities 20 Graham Harman 26 Abstraction and Informality Generate a New Aesthetic Kazuyo Sejima & Associates, Nishnoyama House, Kyoto, Japan, An Interview with 2013 Kazuyo Sejima 30 Which Beauty Will Guide Us? Seeking a Refl ective, New Solids and Sustainable, Socially Massive Forms Engaged Visual Culture Izaskun Chinchilla Winka Dubbeldam and Emilio Luque 38 46 Beauty as Ecological Chromatic Intelligence Compositions Bio-digital Aesthetics as a Value Design Dissonance System of Post-Anthropocene and the Aesthetic Architecture of Fusion Archi-Tectonics, Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto Nannette Jackowski Inscape meditation space, and Ricardo de Ostos Chelsea, New York, 2016 58 52 ISSN 0003-8504 2 ISBN 978 1119 546245 Guest-edited by Yael Reisner The Geometry of Seduction The Primacy of Relationships and the Considerations of Beauty Reclamation of Beauty from Noun to Verb David A Garcia Jeanne Gang: Observed and Interviewed 74 Peter Cook Ambiguous, 66 Bipolar Beauty And Similarly Agile and A Specifi c Fragile Post-Digital Practices Theory of Models Marjan Colletti 90 The Posthuman Beauty of Weird Scales, Snowglobes Tom Wiscombe Architecture, and Supercomponents Taichung City Cultural Center, Taichung City, Taiwan, Tom Wiscombe 2013 80 Beauty is in the Back Deep Immediacy Story: Diversity, Programming Complexity and Beauty Collaborative Making in Stefan Rutzinger and Kristina Schinegger the Australian Condition 98 In Conversation with John Wardle Fleur Watson and Martyn Hook In Search of 104 the Unseen Towards Superhuman In Part Intuition Whole Alisa Andrasek The Aesthetics of 112 Counterpoint the Discrete ‘A Rose by Any Gilles Retsin Other Name Would 120 John Wardle Architects, Ian Potter Southbank Smell as Sweet’ Centre, Victorian College of the Arts, Finding Beauty in University of Melbourne, 2019 the Past Century Contributors Alan Powers 134 128 3 Journal Customer Services For ordering information, claims and any enquiry Editorial Offi ces concerning your journal John Wiley & Sons subscription please go to 9600 Garsington Road www.wileycustomerhelp Oxford .com/ask or contact your OX4 2DQ nearest offi ce. 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Prices Algae-Cellunoi, 9th 2019 261 Air freight and mailing in Individual copies: ArchiLab, FRAC Centre, £29.99 / US$45.00 Orléans, France, 2013–14. the USA by Mercury Media Individual issues on © Marjan Colletti Processing, 1850 Elizabeth Avenue, Suite C, Rahway, 2 App for iPad: Page 1: soma Disclaimer NJ 07065, USA. £9.99 / US$13.99 architecture, Operations The Publisher and Editors cannot be held responsible Mailing fees for print of the Formless, for errors or any consequences arising from the use may apply 21er Haus, Museum of information contained in this journal; the views and USA Postmaster Belvedere, Vienna, 2014. opinions expressed do not necessarily refl ect those of Please send address changes © Stefan Rutzinger and the Publisher and Editors, neither does the publication to Architectural Design, Annual Subscription Rates Kristina Schinegger / of advertisements constitute any endorsement by John Wiley & Sons Inc., Student: £90 / US$137 the Publisher and Editors of the products advertised. soma c/o The Sheridan Press, print only PO Box 465, Hanover, Personal: £136 / US$215 PA 17331, USA print and iPad access 05/2019 Institutional: £310 / US$580 print or online Institutional: £388 / US$725 combined print and online 6-issue subscription on 2 App for iPad: £44.99 / US$64.99 4 Yael Reisner combines architectural practice with research, teaching and curatorial work. A native of Tel Aviv, she has a BSc ABOUT THE in biology, but switched to architecture, fi nishing her studies GUEST-EDITOR in London at the Architectural Association (AA) and gaining her PhD from RMIT University, Melbourne. Her practice, Yael YAEL REISNER Reisner Studio, is committed to research-led projects, increasingly focusing on the experience of beauty in relation to human wellbeing and the built environment. She is also curator of the 5th Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB) 2019, which includes an exhibition, symposium and vision competition exploring the theme ‘Beauty Matters: the Resurgence of Beauty’ based on her thesis, book and research since 2014. The book, Architecture and Beauty: Conversations with Architects about A Troubled Relationship (John Wiley & Sons, 2010), written with Fleur Watson, was also the catalyst for six symposia events at the Royal Academy of Arts, London; Venice Biennale; Lund University, Sweden; Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Los Angeles; Pratt Institute, New York; and Tel Aviv University. Her original thesis research has since widened in scope to include disciplines such as neuroaesthetics, mathematics and neurobiology to understand beauty’s relevance to human life and knowledge. Her research continues, seeking to explain the role of visual thinking and intuitive insight, in her quest to relate the enigma of beauty to the human sense of vision. This issue of 2 shares this interdisciplinary interest in beauty and its symbiotic relationship with architecture. Reisner’s public works have included Take My Hand – Rights and Weddings (Plaça de la Mercè, Barcelona, 2014), an installation exploring human rights and wellbeing that was produced by the Enric Miralles Foundation. In The Mirror explored the spatial experience of a pop music video. It was designed with Barnaby Gunning for the ‘Tomorrow’s Party’ exhibition of digital art augmented by analogue artefacts curated by Shang Shang and held at The Orange in Taikoo Li Sanlitun, Beijing in 2015. In 2011 she was invited by the late Will Alsop to curate an exhibition at the Testbed1 Gallery in Battersea, London. ‘Turning the Tables’ explored the parameters of this everyday item, exhibiting 14 new tables. She is also planning a Gaetano Pesce retrospective at London’s Design Museum. Reisner has taught internationally since 2005, at SCI–Arc, Lund University, the AA in London, École Spéciale d’Architecture (ESA) in Paris, and the Confl uence, Lyons. She was previously a MArch course coordinator and group tutor as well unit master of Diploma Unit 11 at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL). In 2017 she was a guest professor at the Peter Behrens School of Arts, University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf. She is currently a PhD external examiner at RMIT’s European hub in Barcelona. 1 Text © 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Image © Patrick Gunning / www.patrickgunning.com 5 Mark Foster