1 Guest-edited by Ali Rahim and Hina Jamelle CONTRIBUTORS 05:2020 Kutan Ayata This issue of 2 explores the working Ben van Berkel discipline of architecture as it impacts the Hernan Diaz Alonso David Goldblatt material culture within which it is always Thomas Heatherwick embedded. An architecture of impact uses Ferda Kolatan advanced digital techniques in such a way Ascan Mergenthaler that its material assembly supersedes its use Philip Nobel of the digital. Antoine Picon IMPACT M Casey Rehm Until now, this type of architecture has Patrik Schumacher been formally and materially bound by Philip F Yuan and Keke Li restrictive conventional methodologies, which the digital project has moved from the FEATURED ARCHITECTS scale of installations to three-dimensional building-sized fabrications. Unless architects Archi-Union Architects turn to a new culture of making, architecture Contemporary Architecture Practice shaped by even innovative digital technology HDA-X will become irrelevant. Architectural projects Heatherwick Studio Herzog & de Meuron that are more subversive in how they are Ishida Rehm Studio created and that lose their digital signature Pininfarina have greater potential to be at the forefront SHoP Architects of the discipline’s new materialisations. SU-11 This issue illustrates these ideas and their UNStudio architectural impact. Guest-edited by Young & Ayata ALI RAHIM and Zaha Hadid Architects HINA JAMELLE 05 | Vol 90 | 2020 ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN September/October Pro le No. 2020 267 ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN FORTHCOMING 1 TITLES NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2020 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021 MARCH/APRIL 2021 Profile No 268 Volume 90 No 6 Profile No 269 Volume 91 No 1 Profile No 270 Volume 91 No 2 ISBN 978 1119 685371 ISBN 978 1119 717669 ISBN 978 1119 717485 NEUROARCHITECTURE MULTIFORM AHMM Designing with the Mind in Mind Architecture in an Age of Transition Constructing a Practice Guest-edited by Ian Ritchie Guest-edited by Edited by Neil Spiller Owen Hopkins and Erin McKellar Neuroscienti c research techniques enable us to AHMM is a premier international architectural practice. record the way we perceive and orientate our bodies Our current moment is one of profound political Established over 30 years ago, it has won numerous in space, and the cognitive and behavioural impacts and economic change. Historically, these moments of awards including the Stirling Prize. Through the of spatial and architectural design. As a result, we are transition have seen a parallel period of cultural – and contributions of journalists, clients, fellow professionals beginning to understand not only how, but why we notably architectural – ux. In the late 1970s this and academics, this 2 issue celebrates the practice’s respond in certain physiological and emotional ways was manifested in Postmodernism. Today, a number achievements in all areas of architectural production, to our environment. Understanding that architecture of architects are looking again at this movement and featuring archive material, new works and unparalleled has more than a utilitarian or aesthetic function, and redeploying a range of its tactics and approaches access to the AHMM organisation, revealing new how it interacts with all our senses, has the potential to using contemporary methods and techniques. These insights into their work and urban philosophies. transform the ways we design and engineer architecture, include different modes of collage, formal reference To get to this eminent position, the of ce has cities, objects and our environment. The relatively new and quotation, stylistic eclecticism, symbolism in form, consistently responded in innovative and imaginative pan-disciplinary eld of neuroarchitecture endeavours to material and ornament, and the bold, expressive use of ways to the changing imperatives of art, science and integrate these insights with architectural practice. colour, both natural and synthetic. economics that in uence our built environment. Our genes are responsible for the design of our While the design that results from these ‘multiform’ These parameters have metamorphosed considerably brains and our brains drive our behaviour. However, tactics and approaches has been seen as a kind of since AHMM was founded, in terms of advances the eld of epigenetics has revealed that social and neo-Postmodernism, this issue argues that this is a in digitisation, materials science and changes to environmental factors can modulate gene expression simplistic and super cial reading. Instead, it posits contract management, what constitutes sustainability, in ways that are heritable, altering the structure of this phenomenon as the architectural attempt – both procurement routes, construction methods, our brains and consequently our behaviour and that conscious and unconscious – to re ect, grapple collaboration and architectural education. of our children – and so our societies. In this sense, with and make sense of the current political and Above all this 2 will explore AHMM’s practice as neuroscienti c research is allowing us to nally lay economic transition and the backdrop of the climate a holistic design project in itself, in terms of building to rest Descartian mind-body dualism by revealing emergency. Rather than responding to this situation buildings, but also in using a design ethos to cope the complexities, ambiguities and subtle synergies of by attempting to marshal architecture around a single with shifts in workload and the rm’s varying business the human mind, senses, emotions and physiology in unifying narrative, this issue makes the case for the activities and its administration over the years, thus relation to our environment. transformative possibilities offered by an approach that providing insight for a future generation of potentially is ad hoc, eclectic and pluralist. successful architectural professionals. Contributors: Adam Kampff, Danbee Kim, Eduardo Macagno, Sergei Gepshtein, Thomas Albright, Sir Contributors: Mat Barnes, Jennifer Bonner, Graham Contributors: Isabel Allen, Simon Allford, Frances Michael Boyd, Russell G Foster, Vittorio Gallese, Harry Burn, James Crawford and Alexander Turner, Mario Anderton, Patrick Bellew, Nica Burns, Peter Cook, Francis Mallgrave, Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Barry C Smith, Carpo, David Knight and Cristina Monteiro, David Kohn, Martyn Evans, Paul Finch, Hanif Kara, Jay Merrick, Joe Charles Spence, and Fiona Zisch. Stephen Parnell, Lera Samovich, Geoff Shearcroft, Morris, Morag Myerscough, Ellis Woodman, and Roger Dirk Somers, Catrina Stewart and Hugh McEwen, Léa- Zogolovitch. Featured architects: James Corner Field Operations, Catherine Szacka, and Amin Taha. Níall McLaughlin Architects, Ian Ritchie Architects, Sarah Robinson Architect, and Studio Andrew Todd. Featured architects: AOC Architecture, Bovenbouw Architectuur, CAN, Groupwork, David Kohn Architects, DK-CM, Fala Atelier, MALL, Studio MUTT, Of ce S+M, Walala Studio, Yinka Ilori Studio Guest-edited by ALI RAHIM and HINA JAMELLE 05 | Vol 90 | 2020 Impact 05/2020 Introduction About the Architectural Other Experts Guest-Editors Impact After Disciplinary and Aesthetic Ali Rahim and the Digital Impacts of Arti cial Hina Jamelle Intelligence 05 Ali Rahim and Hina Jamelle M Casey Rehm 06 14 Novel Bricks Tech’s A Scenario of Teaching Human–Machine Collaboration Moment Philip F Yuan and Keke Li The Shape of Culture 22 in the Post-Blob Era Philip Nobel Genuine 30 Hybrids Towards an Architecture SHoP, Botswana Innovation with No Origin Hub, Gaborone, Botswana, due for completion 2021 Ferda Kolatan 40 Impactful Disruption Gathered Thoughts of An Estranged a Distracted Mind Type Hernán Díaz Alonso Old Techniques, 50 Familiar Materials and Peculiar Outcomes Kutan Ayata 58 The Impact of Automobile Design on Architecture Young & Ayata with Michan Architecture, DL1310 apartments, Mexico City, Paolo Pininfarina and 2020 Paolo Trevisan 66 ISSN 0003-8504 2 ISBN 978 1119 651581 Guest-edited by Ali Rahim and Hina Jamelle Heatherwick Studio and Foster + Partners, Bund Finance Centre, Shanghai, China, 2017 The Mega-Void Unleashing the Communicative Impact of Tall Buildings Patrik Schumacher Aesthetics, Narrative 72 and the Materials of Architecture David Goldblatt Shanghai 82 Bund The Impact Disjunctive Continuity of Context and the Aesthetics of Thomas Heatherwick the Seam 92 Ali Rahim and Hina Jamelle 100 Material Beyond Intricacy Digital Avant- Ascan Mergenthaler Gardes 110 The Materiality of Architecture Architecture and Its Impact and the Impact of the Fourth Antoine Picon Industrial 118 Revolution Ben van Berkel 126 From Another Perspective Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) and Institute for Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE), The Impact of the Digital ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2016–17 (detail), University of Stuttgart, Germany, on Bigg-ness 2017 Neil Spiller 134 Contributors 142 3 Rights and Permissions Requests to the Publisher Journal Customer Services should be addressed to: For ordering information, Permissions Department claims and any enquiry John Wiley & Sons Ltd concerning your journal The Atrium subscription please go to Southern Gate Editorial Of ces www.wileycustomerhelp Chichester John Wiley & Sons .com/ask or contact your West Sussex PO19 8SQ 9600 Garsington Road nearest of ce. 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