The architecture of error : matter, measure, and the misadventures of precision / Francesca Hughes.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 307 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780262326063
- 026232606X
- Architectural design
- Measurement
- Architects -- Psychology
- Design architectural
- Mesure
- Architectes -- Psychologie
- measuring
- ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation
- ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments
- ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice
- ARCHITECTURE -- Reference
- Architects -- Psychology
- Architectural design
- Measurement
- 720.1/08 23
- NA2750 .H845 2014eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Preface -- Ackowledgments -- False Economy: Precision and Error in Architecture -- 1. The Troping of Precision -- 2. Anatomy of an Accident: Aristotle in the Garden -- 3. Room for Doubt: Instrumentalism, Inference, and Ideology -- 4. Abdicated Measures: Liquid Automation, Anxiety, and the Politics of Optimization -- 5. The Blind Spot and the Bridge -- 6. Miniature Giants: Colonial Adventures in Entropy and Scale -- 7. The Copying Machine Fails: The Double Helix and the Loop -- 8. Counted Away: Indexicality and the Sublimation of Ornament -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Why the rise of redundant precision in architecture and the accompanying fear of error are key to understanding the discipline's needs, anxieties and desires.
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