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

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2014 | 307 Pages | ISBN: 0262526360 | PDF | 10 MB
When architects draw even brick walls to six decimal places with software                 designed to cut lenses, it is clear that the logic that once organized relations                 between precision and material error in construction has unraveled. Precision,                 already a promiscuous term, seems now to have been uncoupled from its contract with                 truthfulness. Meanwhile error, and the always-political space of its dissent, has                 reconfigured itself. 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? Hughes's analysis of redundant precision exposes an                 architecture of fear whose politics must be called into question. Proposing error as                 a new category for architectural thought, Hughes draws on other disciplines and                 practices that have interrogated precision and failure, citing the work of                 scientists Nancy Cartwright and Evelyn Fox Keller and visual artists Gordon                 Matta-Clark, Barbara Hepworth, Rachel Whiteread, and others. These non-architect                 practitioners, she argues, show that error need not be excluded and precision can be                 made accountable.

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