Goes soft
By: [editors, Neerel Bhatia, Lola Sheppard]
Contributors: Archinect.com (Firm); InfraNet Lab (Firm)
Series: Bracket -- almanac 2; Bracket -- almanac 2.
Publisher: Actar; Distributed by ActarD
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Barcelona; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9788415391029
Subjects: Architectural design; Architecture and technology; Modern Architecture; Smart structures; Design architectural; Architecture et technologie; Architecture; Structures intelligentes
Other titles: Bracket goes soft
Description: From soft politics, soft power and soft spaces to fluid territories, software and soft programming, Bracket 2 unpacks the use and role of responsive, indeterminate, flexible, and immaterial systems in design. In an era of declared crises--economic, ecological and climatic, among others--the notion of soft systems has gained increasing traction as a counterpoint to permanent, static and hard systems. Acknowledging fluid and indeterminate situations with complex feedback loops that allow for reaction and adaption, the possibility of soft systems has reentered the domain of design. The examples displayed in "Bracket goes soft" are offered as nothing more than a short catalog of soft systems--some explicitly architectural, others geological, others entirely metaphorical. In all cases, these examples explore how the notion of going soft can be iterated across professions, disciplines, and fields of research. The book is divided into the themes "sensing/feedback"; "interfacing/ enveloping"; "subverting/hijacking"; "formatting/ distributing"; "contingency/ resilience"; "diffusing/generating". Bracket is a book series structured around an open call that highlights emerging critical issues at the juncture of architecture, environment, and digital culture. The editorial board and jury for Bracket 2 includes Benjamin Bratton, Julia Czerniak, Jeffrey Inaba, Geoff Manaugh, Philippe Rahm, Charles Renfro, as well as co-editors Neeraj Bhatia and Lola Sheppard. Bracket is a collaboration between InfraNet Lab and Archinect.
Notes: "Bracket--architecture, environment, digital culture"--Cover.

"Archinect.com, Infranet Lab"--Page 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Going soft / Neeraj Bhatia and Lola Sheppard; title: Soft serve space / Geoff Manaugh; title: Sensing/feedback : Buoyant light / Claire Lubell and Virginia Fernandez ; Arctic opening / fabric/ch (Patrick Keller) ; Weather station / Anca Matyiku ; Soft goes hard / Colin Ripley, Geoffrey Thün, Kathy Velikov ; Surveiller et divertir: discipline and entertain / Pietro Pezzani ; Be alarmed / Leigha Dennis ; Signal space: New York's soft frequency terrains / Michael Chen ; Towards a new urban sound / Shannon Werle; title: The urban conspiracy / Jeffrey Inaba; title: Interfacing/enveloping : Fast company: architecture and the speed of technology / Chris Perry ; ShapeShift: soft dielectric electroactive polyers and architectural surfaces / Manuel Kretzer ; A floating room / STUDIOGRUBER ; Soft house / KVA MATx and MIT Soft Cities research ; Grounding: landscape mitigation housing / Jared Winchester ; Of pop and prostheses: Vienna 1965-72 / Jon Cummings; title: Vaporized techtonics / Phillipe Rahm; title: Subverting/hijacking : Contesting limits: architecture and boundary conditions in Israel/Palestine / Suzanne Harris Brandis ; Operation "Hello Eden" / Fionn Byrne ; Estuary services pipeline / Bionic (Marcel Wilson) ; Undamming the Dutch Delta / Kimberly Garza and Sarah Thomas ; Landscapes of co-option: soft power and the environmental turn in corporate America / Dan Handel ; Soft progressivism in a wasteland of urban code / Scott Colman; title: Ambivalence and/or utopia / Benjamin H. Bratton; title: Formatting/distributing : Dredge / Stephen Becker, Rob Holmes, Tim Maly, Brett Milligan ; Chicago Institute of Land Generation / Stewart Hicks and Allison Newmeyer ; Olmsted's blank snow / Holes of Matter (Sergio López-Piñeiro) ; iMobile / Office of Mobile Design ; City tickets / Mayo Nissen; title: From site to territory / Lola Sheppard; title: Contingency/resilience : Soft culture machines / Ewan Branda ; Scaffolding city: architectural utopia of the future past / Edward Dodington ; The bladders / Jonathan Walker ; Swamp thing / All That Is Solid (Alex Chew, Max Kuo, Danielle Wagner) ; Aqua dermis / Mariela De Felix; title: Resilient infrastructures / Neeraj Bhatia; title: Diffusing/generating : Soft energy controversy / Rania Ghosn ; Kinetic backbone / Leigh Salem ; 50 fathoms under the sea / Marianna de Cola ; Sky_Net: a power migration network / Jared Winchester / Knowledge cultivation / Nicholas Musser ; Dredge locked / Alex Yuen.