The Architecture of Error
Matter, Measure, and the Misadventures of Precision
In The Architecture of Error Francesca Hughes argues that behind the architect¿s acute fetishization of redundant precision lies a special fear of physical error. What if we were to consider the pivotal cultural and technological transformations of modernism to have been driven not so much by the causes its narratives declare, she asks, as by an unspoken horror of loss of control over error, material life, and everything that matter stands for? Hughes traces the rising intolerance of material vagaries¿from the removal of ornament to digitalized fabrication¿that produced the blind rejection of organic materials, the proliferation of material t…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-262-52636-4
- EAN: 9780262526364
- Produktnummer: 16466979
- Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Masse: H18.2 cm x B25.2 cm x D2.5 cm 930 g
- Abbildungen: 17 color illus., 94 b 111 Illustrations, unspecified
- Gewicht: 930
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Francesca Hughes lives and works in London, where she taught at the Bartlett School of Architecture and the Architectural Association for many years. She is the editor of The Architect: Reconstructing Her Practice (MIT Press) and Drawings That Count.
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