Exactitude : on precision and play in contemporary architecture /

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"Precision is necessary in the field of architecture, and new technologies have increased demands for accuracy, particularly when the smallest errors can have outsized consequences. However, the importance of precision, or exactitude, has not received the consideration it merits. While themes o...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Riahi, Pari (Architect) (Editor), Katsaros, Laure (Editor), Davis, Michael Trabue (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Architecture > Philosophy.
Exact (Philosophy)
Architecture > Philosophie.
Exact (Philosophie)
architectural theory.
ARCHITECTURE > General.
Architecture > Philosophy
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The intolerances of architecture / Mark Wigley
  • New Narratives in the After-Post-Truth Age: Posthumanism, Precision, and Conservation / Alejandro Zaera-Polo
  • Verify in Field: Verification and Materiality in Contemporary Design Workflow / Eric Höweler
  • Exactitude and the weather / Christopher Benfey
  • Building in the Floating World / Sunil Bald
  • Stacks: Case Studies in a Construction of Exactitude LOT-EK / Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano with Thomas de Monchaux
  • Filthy Logics : Exactitude and the Architecture of Mediocrity / Francesca Hughes
  • The In-Exact Words of Architecture / Teresa Stoppani
  • A Postlude / Cynthia Davidson

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