EDITORIAL 5
Helen Castle
ABOUT THE GUEST-EDITOR 6
Mark Garcia
SPOTLIGHT 8
Visual highlights of the issue
INTRODUCTION: Histories, Theories and Futures of the Details of Architecture14
Mark Garcia
The Grand Work of Fiction: The Detail as Narrative 26
Edward Ford
Details Around the Corner 36
Christian Schittich
Tectonic Articulation: Making Engineering Logics Speak 44
Patrik Schumacher
Future Details of UNStudio Architectures: An Interview with Ben van Berkel 52
Mark Garcia
Close Up 62
Hernan Diaz Alonso
Un detail de ce qui change: Function of a Function 68
Peter Macapia
Future Landscapes of Spatial Details: An Interview with Philippe Rahm 78
Mark Garcia
The Rise of the 'Invisible Detail': Ubiquitous Computing and the 'Minimum Meaningful' 86
Carlo Ratti and Matthew Claudel
Information, Complexity and the Detail 92
Dennis R Shelden
Growing Details 98
David Benjamin, Danil Nagy and Carlos Olguin
DNA disPlay: Programmable Bioactive Materials Using CNC Patterning 104
Skylar Tibbits, Lina Kara'in, Joseph Schaeffer, Helena de Puig, Jose Gomez-Marquez and Anna Young
The Post-Epistemological Details of Oceanic Ontologies 112
Rachel Armstrong
Detailing the Walled Garden for Lebbeus 118
Neil Spiller
The Gold Mine: A Ludic Architecture 128
Nic Clear
COUNTERPOINT: The Architectural Detail and the Fear of Commitment 134
Mark Burry
CONTRIBUTOR 142