Exactitude : On Precision and Play in Contemporary Architecture / edited by Pari Riahi, Laure Katsaros, and Michael T. Davis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Riahi, Pari (Architect), editor.

Katsaros, Laure, editor.

Davis, Michael Trabue, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

Exact (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amherst, MA : University of Massachusetts Press, [2022]

Summary:

"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 of sustainability, performance, and formal innovation have been at the forefront of architectural scholarship for the past twenty years, this book moves beyond these concerns to explore the theoretical and practical demands exactitude makes on architecture as a field. The eleven essays collected here investigate the possibilities and shortcomings of exactitude and delve into current debates about the state of contemporary architecture as both a technological craft and artistic creation. Featuring new work by leading theorists, historians, editors, architects, and scholars, this volume brings theory and practice into insightful and productive conversations. In addition to the editors, contributors include Mark Wigley, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Eric Höweler, Christopher Benfey, Sunil Bald, Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano with Thomas de Monchaux, Alicia Imperiale, Francesca Hughes, Teresa Stoppani, and Cynthia Davidson"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The intolerances of architecture / Mark Wigley

Exactitude and the weather / Christopher Benfey

Filthy logics : exactitude and the architecture of mediocrity / Francesca Hughes.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Riahi, Pari Exactitude

ISBN:

9781613769492

1613769490

OCLC:

1310786523