Author: Sean Lally | ArchDaily

"Night White Skies" Podcast Explores How the Design of Our Environment and Our Bodies is Changing Architecture

Sean Lally — Sat, 19 Nov 2016 09:30:00 +0000

Humanity is at a key moment in a larger story, one in which we are willfully manipulating both our global environments as well as our human bodies. The first is changing the makeup of the physical spaces we occupy and the second, the very body that perceives that space. At this intersection are the physical boundaries that define architectural space. Both our environments and our bodies are therefore open for design, and architecture has swerved in a new direction.

The Air from Other Planets, A Brief History of Architecture

Sean Lally — Sun, 13 Apr 2014 01:00:00 +0000

The following is an excerpt from Sean Lally's The Air from Other Planets, A Brief History of Architecture to Come. The book introduces the reader to an architecture produced by designing the energy within our environment (electromagnetic, thermodynamic, acoustic, and chemical)-- an architecture that exchanges walls and shells for a range of material energies that develop its own shapes, aesthetics, organizational systems, and social experiences. Energy becomes its own enterprise for design innovation; it becomes the architecture itself.