Title & Author:

Exactitude : on precision and play in contemporary architecture / edited by Pari Riahi, Laure Katsaros, Michael T. Davis.

Publication:

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

Description:

viii, 199 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The intolerances of architecture / Mark Wigley -- New narratives in the after-post-truth age posthumanism, precision, and conservation / Alejandro Zaera-Polo -- Verify and materiality in contemporary design workflow / Eric Howeler -- 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 -- Machine consequences / Alicia Imperiale -- Filthy logics : exactitude and the architecture of mediocrity / Francesca Hughes -- The in-exact words of architecture / Teresa Stoppani -- A postlude / Cynthia Davidson.

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.

ISBN:

9781625346711 paperback
1625346719 paperback
9781625346728 hardcover
1625346727 hardcover
electronic book
9781613769492

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
Exact (Philosophy)
Architecture Philosophie.
Exact (Philosophie)
architectural theory.

Added entries:

Riahi, Pari (Architect), editor.
Katsaros, Laure, editor.
Davis, Michael Trabue, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main
Copy: 1
Status: On Order