This well-illustrated book unites essayists and emerging architectural practices to examine how digital tools are increasingly being used in architectural design, not only to show form, structure and geometries but also to visualize and simulate energies and material qualities such as air, gas, sound, scent and electricity.

Softspace takes stock of current advancements in design and research, while drawing on historical and ideological trajectories rooted in the past fifty years. The varied contributors examine the capabilities of such 'energy matters' to act as catalysts for design innovation today.

This well-presented and impressively authored title will provoke architects of all levels to consider the potential for creative and innovative design through the use of digital design tools.

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Preface: The Stuff Between, In & Around
Introduction: Energies, Matter & the Gradients of Space
Putting out the Fire with Gasoline: Parables of Entropy and Homeostasis from the Second Machine Age to the Information Age
Potential Energies
Nested Capacities, Gradient Thresholds & Modulated Environments: Towards Differentiated and Multi-Performative Architectures
Dissipative Procedures: Optimization through ‘Phenomenonization’
The Archoid Chimera: Electric Space as Social Machine
Eco_logics
Matter and Sense
Postscript: This Pipe is Not a Pipe Dream
Postscript: I, the Scent Cube and CSI; or, the Controlled Soft Interior
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