Architecture of error :
Hughes, Francesca
Architecture of error : Matter, measure and the misadventures of precision / Francesca Hughes - Cambridge : MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Press, 2014. - xiv, 307 p.
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.
9780262526364
AR
Architectural design
Measurement; Architects--Psychology
720.108 / HUG-A
Architecture of error : Matter, measure and the misadventures of precision / Francesca Hughes - Cambridge : MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Press, 2014. - xiv, 307 p.
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.
9780262526364
AR
Architectural design
Measurement; Architects--Psychology
720.108 / HUG-A