Future Landscapes of Spatial Details: An Interview with Philippe Rahm.

From his Paris base, Philippe Rahm has gained an international reputation for uncharted explorations into the physical environment; his preoccupation with the meteorological has opened up wholly new possibilities for sustainable design. In this interview with Guest-Editor Mark Garcia, Rahm highlights how his practice has developed an alternative approach, or third way, for the detail, which is neither the highly worked-up tectonic detail nor the non-detail, but instead has grown out of a focus on climate and the application of new and often modest techniques. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]