Despite the exaggerated news of the untimely 'death of the detail' by Greg Lynn, the architectural detail is now more lifelike and active than ever before. In this era of digital design and production technologies, new materials, parametrics, building information modeling (BIM), augmented realities and the nano-bio-information-computation consilience, the detail is now an increasingly vital force in architecture. Though such digitally designed and produced details are diminishing in size to the molecular and nano levels, they are increasingly becoming more complex, multi-functional, high performance and self-replicating. Far from being a non-essential and final finish, this new type of highly evolved high-tech detail is rapidly becoming the indispensable and critical core, the (sometimes iconic) DNA of an innovative new species of built environmental form that is spawning in scale and prominence, across product, interior, urban and landscape design. This issue of AD re-examines the history, theories and design of the worlds most significant spatial details, and explores their innovative potentials and possibilities for the future of architecture. Contributors include: Rachel Armstrong, Nic Clear, Edward Ford, Dennis Shelden, Skylar Tibbits. Featured architects: Ben van Berkel, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Peter Macapia, Carlo Ratti, Philippe Rahm, Patrik Schumacher, Neil Spiller.
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 detail 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
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