Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- EDITORIAL -- ABOUT THE GUEST-EDITOR -- SPOTLIGHT: Visual highlights of the issue -- INTRODUCTION: Histories, Theories and Futures of the Details of Architecture -- The Grand Work of Fiction: The Detail as Narrative -- Articulation -- Two Examples -- Three Axioms of the Detail -- THE GOOD JOINT IS OFTEN THE IMPERFECT ONE -- THE AFFIRMATION OF SCALE IS A NECESSARY CONDITION FOR ARCHITECTURAL UNDERSTANDING, REQUIRING THE PERCEPTION OF PARTS, THAT IS, ITS JOINTS -- THE UNDERSTANDING OF A BUILDING REQUIRES NOT JUST AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE PARTS, BUT OF THE FORCES BETWEEN THEM -- Narratives and Realities -- Details Around the Corner -- Details: Essential to All -- Details in the Future -- Tectonic Articulation: Making Engineering Logics Speak -- Tectonic Articulation -- Semiological Form-to-Function Correlations -- Accentuation and Suppression -- Future Details of UNStudio Architectures: An Interview with Ben van Berkel -- UNStudio's 21st-Century Details -- Computational Detail Innovations -- UNStudio's Future Details -- Close Up -- Close Reading to Virtuosity -- Details to Close-Ups -- Architectural Speculation as Cultural Advancement -- Un Détail de ce Qui change: Function of a Function -- TRUTH -- FORCE -- FUNCTION -- SPACES -- POWER -- CHANCE -- Future Landscapes of Spatial Details: An Interview with Philippe Rahm -- Meteorological Details of Space -- Meteorological Details of Landscape -- Microclimatic Affects of Meteorological Details -- Infra-Meteorologies and Micro-Affects in the Future Details of Architecture -- The Rise of the 'Invisible Detail': Ubiquitous Computing and the 'Minimum Meaningful' -- Information, Complexity and the Detail -- PHYSICAL COMPUTING -- GEOMETRY AND COMPLEXITY -- DETAILS AS PRODUCT SPACES -- COMPLEXITY AND MAKING -- THE OBJECT-ORIENTED DETAIL.

PRODUCTION AND INFORMATION COST -- FLEXIBILITY AND DETERMINACY -- TOWARDS THE FUTURE -- Growing Details -- Generative Geometry -- Structural Simulation and Optimisation -- Next Steps -- Further Applications -- Future Details of Architecture -- DNA disPlay: Programmable Bioactive Materials Using CNC Patterning -- Printing with DNA -- The DNA Printing Workflow -- Design and Software -- Custom Biomaterial -- CNC Bioprinting -- Programmable Drawings -- Architectural Applications -- The Post-Epistemological Details of Oceanic Ontologies -- Detailing Dynamic Matter -- Observing Oceanic Ontologies -- Designing with Oceanic Ontologies -- Oceanic Ontologies and the Role of the Architect -- Moral and Ethical Considerations -- The Future of Oceanic Ontologies -- Detailing the Walled Garden for Lebbeus -- The Enigma of the Day -- Vectors and Storms -- Stone-Cold Faces -- Ghostly Apparitions -- The Gold Mine: A Ludic Architecture -- The Great Southern Village (GSV) -- The Gold Mine -- COUNTERPOINT: The Architectural Detail and the Fear of Commitment -- CONTRIBUTORS.