[ISEA2010] Paper: Alex Haw – Auto Atmospheres and Artificial Ecologies: Natural Architecture and Artificial Environments

Abstract

We humans are all weather men, constantly cultivating and modifying the climates that surround us at every conceivable scale, from the miniature local excretions of our subcutaneous cells to our operatic military manoeuvres in weather modification. Each adjustment acts as a form of architecture – a sheltering moment in our unending project of climate control, submitting the chaos of the external climate to the controlling and organising tendencies of humanity.

This paper surveys an extremely brief history of architecture’s relationship to both weather and media, probing both the climate as culture, and technoartistic experiments as new weather systems.

  • Alex Haw (UK) is an architect and artist operating at the intersection of design, research, art and the urban environment. He runs atmos, a collaborative experimental practice which produces a range of architecture and events including private houses, installations and larger public commissions.

Full text (PDF) p. 240-241