About the Guest-Editor 05Matias Del Campo Introduction Moods and Other Ontological Catastrophes 06Matias del Campo Mood Swings Architectural Affective Disorder 14John McMorrough !ntimacy Eragatory's Experiments in Materiality, Deep Texture and Mood 20Isaie Bloch Aesthetics as Politics The Khaleesi Tower on West 57th Street, NYC 26Mark Foster Gage Figuring Mood The Role of Stimmung in the Formal Approachof Heinrich Woelfflin andAlois Riegl 34Andrew Saunders Low Albedo The Mathilde Project 42Jason Payne Oh, Vienna! An Interview with Wolf D Prix of Coop Himmelb(l)au 46Matias del Campo Moody Objects Ore Fashion Stores and Blocks 54Matias del Campo The Affects of Realism Or the Estrangement of the Background 58Michael Young Parrhesia-stases (The Preamble) 66Francois Roche with Camille Lacadee Affects of Intricate Mass The Strange Characteristics of the RMIT Mace and NGV Pavilion 72Roland Snooks Excessive Resolution From Digital Streamlining to Computational Complexity 78Mario Carpo Something Else, Something Raw From ProtoHouse to Blokhut: The Aesthetics of Computational Assemblage 84Gilles Retsin XenoCells In the Mood for the Unseen 90Alisa Andrasek Bad Mood On Design and 'Empathy' 96Benjamin H Bratton Emanating Objects The Atmospheric Ecosystems Generated by Gelatinous Orb and Buru Buru 102Michael Loverich Mood, Posture and Rhythmic Feedback MONAD Studio's Sonic Experiments with 3D-Printed Musical Instruments 108Eric Goldemberg The Awesome and Capricious Language of Past, Present and Future Digital Moods 118Marjan Colletti Counterpoint The Sixth Sense The Meaning of Atmosphere and Mood 126Juhani Pallasmaa Contributors 134