The fourth issue of Verb looks at two related processes: the conditioning of architectural environments and the conditioning of behaviors. On the one hand, studies of luminosity, sound, atmosphere and temperature expand the range of techniques available to the discipline, allowing the production of ever more extensive effects with increasingly minimal means. On the other, the rise of commerce, theming and the manufacturing of identity produce a different set of effects, directing users and their emotions for maximum financial success. What are the real potentials of conditioning? Do these new environments merely replicate the existing with increasing accuracy and sophistication, or can they generate qualitatively new atmospheres capable of stimulating not just new effects but also new forms of living? Featured works: The Venetian in Las Vegas, Spanish Pavilion in Aichi by FOA, New Milan Trade Fair by Fuksas, Arup SoundLab, Décosterd & Rahm, Arakawa + Gins, Enric Ruiz, Tomihiro Museum by Makoto Yokomizo, and texts by Norman Klein and AUDC.
Edited by:
Albert Ferré , Irene hwang , Michael Kubo , Tomoko Sakamoto , Ramon Prat , Anna Tetas
Language / ISBN:
English [978-84-95951-86-1] Available Spanish [978-84-96540-04-0] Available
Cover:
Illustrations:
Flexibound
Color
Size:
Page Number:
17 x 24 cm.
280
Published by:
ACTAR
Price:
International 19.00 € Spain/Portugal 19.00 € USA 24.95 $
Order this book online from RAS, Actar's own bookshop in Barcelona, Spain.
