Architecture of error : Matter, measure and the misadventures of precision / Francesca Hughes

By:

Hughes, Francesca

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Press, 2014. Cambridge :Description: xiv, 307 pISBN:

9780262526364

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DDC classification:

720.108 HUG-A

Contents:

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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Library, SPAB I-2	Non Fiction	720.108 HUG-A (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		008904

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