Table of Contents

EDITORIAL 5
Helen Castle

ABOUT THE GUEST-EDITOR 6
Mark Garcia

SPOTLIGHT 8
Visual highlights of the issue

INTRODUCTION: Histories, Theories and Futures of the Details of Architecture14
Mark Garcia

The Grand Work of Fiction: The Detail as Narrative 26
Edward Ford

Details Around the Corner 36
Christian Schittich

Tectonic Articulation: Making Engineering Logics Speak 44
Patrik Schumacher

Future Details of UNStudio Architectures: An Interview with Ben van Berkel 52
Mark Garcia

Close Up 62
Hernan Diaz Alonso

Un détail de ce qui change: Function of a Function 68
Peter Macapia

Future Landscapes of Spatial Details: An Interview with Philippe Rahm 78
Mark Garcia

The Rise of the ‘Invisible Detail’: Ubiquitous Computing and the ‘Minimum Meaningful’ 86
Carlo Ratti and Matthew Claudel

Information, Complexity and the Detail 92
Dennis R Shelden

Growing Details 98
David Benjamin, Danil Nagy and Carlos Olguin

DNA disPlay: Programmable Bioactive Materials Using CNC Patterning 104
Skylar Tibbits, Lina Kara’in, Joseph Schaeffer, Helena de Puig, Jose Gomez-Marquez and Anna Young

The Post-Epistemological Details of Oceanic Ontologies 112
Rachel Armstrong

Detailing the Walled Garden for Lebbeus 118
Neil Spiller

The Gold Mine: A Ludic Architecture 128
Nic Clear

COUNTERPOINT: The Architectural Detail and the Fear of Commitment 134
Mark Burry

CONTRIBUTOR 142

About the Author

Mark Garcia is a consultant, researcher and academic. He is currently a lecturer, teaching Unit 4, the architectural design studio in the School of Architecture, Design and Construction at the University of Greenwich in London. He has held academic teaching and management posts at St. Antony's College (Oxford University) and in the Departments of Architecture and Industrial Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art (RCA), where he supervised M.A, MPhil and PhD students. He has worked in industry as a manager for Skidmore Owings and Merrill (SOM) and Branson Coates Architecture (BCA). Mark has authored and edited a number of publications including Architextiles, AD (Wiley, 2006), Patterns of Architecture, AD (Wiley, 2010) and The Diagrams of Architecture, AD Reader (Wiley, 2010).