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The architect reconstructing her practice

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A collection of autobiographical essays examining the changes resulting from the introduction of women into the field of architecture. Contributors include Beatiz Colomina, Francoise-Helene Jourda, Catherine Ingraham, and Diana Agrest.

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The architecture of error: matter, measure, and the misadventures of precision

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In The Architecture of Error Francesca Hughes argues that behind the architect’s acute fetishization of redundant precision lies a special fear of physical error. What if we were to consider the pivotal cultural and technological transformations of modernism to have been driven not so much by the causes its narratives declare, she asks, as by an unspoken horror of loss of control over error, material life, and everything that matter stands for? Hughes traces the rising intolerance of material vagaries—from the removal of ornament to digitalized fabrication—that produced the blind rejection of organic materials, the proliferation of material testing, and the rhetorical obstacles that blighted cybernetics. Why is it, she asks, that the more we cornered physical error, the more we feared it?

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The architect reconstructing her practice

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A collection of autobiographical essays examining the introduction of women into the field of architecture. Contributors include Diana Agrest, Jennifer Bloomer, Catherine Ingraham, and Françoise Helene Jourda.

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Drawings that count

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No architectural category is more fickle or more artificial than 'context'. This collection of 60 large drawings produced over five years by AA Diploma 15 addresses the construction of context by architecture for its own very particular purposes. A self-declared 'render-free zone', the unit's interrogations of architecture's seminal sites (antiquity, technology, the future and its proxies) examine the role of figuration and the exclusion of indeterminacy in the always already mediated question of context. Through the quiet business of counting, these line drawings - against the double ascendancy of parametricisation and the glossy rendered perspective - question architecture's ambivalent relations to the artifice it installs between itself and the outside world.