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The architecture of error : matter, measure, and the misadventures of precision / Francesca Hughes.
Fine Arts Library NA2750 .H845 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hughes, Francesca, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architectural design.
- Measurement.
- Architects--Psychology.
- Architects.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 307 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- 1 Error and Precision 17
- The Troping of Precision
- Hooke's Needle and Sutherland's Window
- 2 Error and Matter 45
- Anatomy of an Accident: Aristotle in the Garden
- Hepworth's Quarry
- 3 Error and Materiality I 77
- Room for Doubt: Instrumentalism, Inference, and Ideology
- Gallaudet's Dodo
- 4 Error and Materiality II 113
- Abdicated Measures: Liquid Automation, Anxiety, and the Politics of Optimization
- Axel's Stream
- 5 Error and Representation 139
- The Blind Spot and the Bridge
- Matta-Clark's Jigsaw
- 6 Error and Reproduction 163
- Miniature Giants: Colonial Adventures in Entropy and Scale
- Schrooinger's Dolls' House
- 7 Error and Reproduction II 193
- The Copying Machine Fails: The Double Helix and the Loop
- Perec's Corridor
- 8 Error and Surface 217
- Counted Away: Indexicality and the Sublimation of Ornament
- (Hermine) Wittgenstein's Radiator.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780262526364
- 0262526360
- OCLC:
- 866859990
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