This twenty-third volume of the book series CENTER: Architecture and Design in America is devoted to the subject of air—air quality, air movement, and air “conditioning,” but also to air as spirit, as something sensual, metaphorical, even metaphysical: air in the sky, in our streets, and in buildings. CENTER 23 comprises a collection of essays by writers with different perspectives. The hope is that from these perspectives, and from this preface, designers of the future might develop a new unity of approach to air as a subject, an approach that is not only spatial, visual, and technical, but is also about air’s meaning to the body, directly, and to the imagination indirectly.
ISBN: 9780934951340
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface, by Michael Benedikt
Taking to the Air, by Steven Connor
Phasin Densities, by Sean Lally
Sky Control, by Geoff Manaugh
Exhibition
Atmospheres of Late Modernity, by David Gissen
Coolth: Everybody's Doing It, by Salvatore Basile
From Bodies to Breathable Skins, by Rafael Beneytez-Duran
EDITOR
Michael Benedikt
MANAGING EDITOR
Leora Visotzky
ASSISTANT EDITORS
Carly Choi
Christine Johnson
Hailey Algoe
