Main entry:

Manolopoulou, Yeoryia.

Title & Author:

Architectures of chance / Yeoryia Manolopoulou.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2013]

Description:

xxiv, 254 pages ; 22 cm.

Series:

Design research in architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chance in Perception. Eyes and objects: after Beckett -- Crossings: viewing instrument I -- Behind the image.
Chance in Design. Projections: after Duchamp -- Shutters: House F -- Fields: drafting Pier 40 -- The practice of observation -- Drawing as event -- Encounter and assemblage -- Fragment, part, whole -- Ironic fabrication -- Aleatoric form -- Double passage.

Summary:

"Architectural discourse and practice are dominated by a false dichotomy between design and chance, and governed by the belief that the architect's role is to defend against the indeterminate. In Architectures of Chance Yeoryia Manolopoulou challenges this position, arguing for the need to develop a more creative understanding of chance as aesthetic experience and critical method, and as a design practice in its own right. Examining the role of experimental chance across film, psychoanalysis, philosophy, fine art and performance, this is the first book to comprehensively discuss the idea of chance in architecture and bring a rich array of innovative practices of chance to the attention of architects. Wide-ranging and through a symbiotic interplay of drawing and text, Architectures of Chance makes illuminating reading for those interested in the process and experience of design, and the poetics and ethics of chance and space in the overlapping fields of architecture and the aleatoric arts"--Back cover.

ISBN:

9781409435365 (paperback. ; alk. paper)
1409435369 (paperback. ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9781409435372
(epub)
9781472408396

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
Chance.
Architecture Philosophie.
Hasard.
Architecture and Planning.

Added entries:

Design research in architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304023
Call No.: BIB 249527
Status: Available