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Synthesis Architecture Lecture

The lecture will discuss how landscape architecture can reframe the importance of air and atmosphere as a design medium. It will claim that innovations in landscape architecture have coincided with scientific developments and increased environmental awareness of air. The presentation will use case studies to show how atmosphere can be crafted through design to enhance sensory experiences and physiological well-being.

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Synthesis Architecture Lecture

The lecture will discuss how landscape architecture can reframe the importance of air and atmosphere as a design medium. It will claim that innovations in landscape architecture have coincided with scientific developments and increased environmental awareness of air. The presentation will use case studies to show how atmosphere can be crafted through design to enhance sensory experiences and physiological well-being.

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The meteorological turn in design

Atmospheres for
living and sensing

silvia benedito,

assistant professor in landscape architecture


co-chair, sensory media platform,
graduate school of design, harvard university

11 am - Friday, April 17, 2015


Arizona State University,
Design North, The Bridge

The lecture is part of the Atmosphere and Place symposium co-sponsored by:
the Synthesis Center of the School of Arts, Media and Engineering ,
the Institute for Humanities Research and
the Design School

Atmosphere is the space one inhabits and breathes. Interior or exterior, this space is made out of air with mechanical, chemical and biological properties that affects peoples health and wellbeing. While in science, air is a matter of study with precise
properties and behaviours, in design it is still titled the void. This designation not only reduces the characteristics contained
in air but also undermines the potentials of air as space to be crafted and designed. This devaluing is particularly relevant for
the discipline of landscape architecture, vulgarly titled the discipline of the void, the in-between space of the built environment. How can one re-frame the importance of air and atmosphere as matter in the discipline of landscape architecture in
relation to both the disciplines history with the forming of microclimates and future demands for sustainable environments?
Inversely to the implications of the word landscape (a focus on land), the relationship between landscape architecture and
atmosphere is significant. One might claim that instances of scientific development and heightened environmental awareness
towards air and atmosphere were paired with moments of disciplinary innovation in both landscape architecture and urbanism. It is the purpose of this presentation to set forth this claim while foregrounding case studies that craft atmosphere as
design medium for sensory and physiological well-being.
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