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Softspace Explores How Once Elusive Conditionings Of Space Are Now Opening Entirely New Possibilities For Our Understanding, Creation And Experience Of Architecture. In The Past, Advancements In The Visualization And Simulation Of Energies And Material Qualities - Such As Air, Gas, Fire, Sound, Scent And Electricity - Have Been Used Simply To Refine Preconceived Spatial, Organizational And Formal Conditions. More Recently, The Appropriation Of Digital Tools Into Architectural Design Has Been Focused On Innovative Form, Structure And Geometries While Neglecting The Vast Range Of Materials And Energies Previously Dismissed As Simply Atmospheric, Qualitative Or Residual To The Design Process. Today, Through The Development And Dissemination Of Technologies, These Energies And Intensities Can Become Architectural Materials Visualized And Operated Upon As Systematically And Accurately As The Forces That Guide Structure And Geometry. Softspace Explores The Spatial And Organizational Potential Of These Advancements, And Their Relation To Historical And Ideological Trajectories. Through Contributions By Emerging Architectural Practices And Essayists, Softspace Takes Stock Of Current Advancements In Design And Research And Examines The Potentials Of Such Energy Matters To Act As Catalysts For Design Innovation Today.--jacket. Preface: The Stuff Between, In, And Around / Sean Lally & Jessica Young -- Introduction: Energies, Matter And The Gradients Of Space / Sean Lally -- Putting Out The Fire With Gasoline / Christopher Hight -- Potential Energies / Sean Lally Weathers -- The Phenomena Of The Non-visual / Michelle Addington -- Nested Capacities, Gradient Thresholds And Modulated Environments / Michael Hensel & Achim Menges -- Dissipative Procedures / Open Source Architecture, Chandler Ahrens, Eran Neumann, And Aaron Sprecher -- Cybernetic Anything... / Marcelyn Gow (servo) -- The Archoid Chimera / Tobi Schneidler (maoworks) -- Eco_logics / Helene Furján -- Matter And Sense / Jason Payne & Heather Roberge (gnuform) -- Postscript: This Pipe Is Not A Pipe Dream / Lars Lerup -- Postscript: I, The Scent Cube And Csi / Bart Lootsma. Edited By Sean Lally & Jessica Young. Series Numbering Not On Piece But Intended As No. 41 ( Publisher's Web Site).