TY - BOOK ID - 654795 TI - The architecture of error : matter, measure, and the misadventures of precision PY - 2014 SN - 9780262526364 PB - Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press DB - UniCat KW - Architecture KW - architectural theory KW - Architectural design. KW - Measurement. KW - Architects KW - Design architectural KW - Mesure KW - Architectes KW - Psychology. KW - Psychologie KW - 72.01 KW - Architectuur (theorie) KW - Architectuurtheorie KW - Architectuur (esthetica) KW - Architectuuresthetica KW - Architectural design KW - Measurement KW - Professional employees KW - Design KW - Structural design KW - Measuring KW - Mensuration KW - Mathematics KW - Technology KW - Metrology KW - Physical measurements KW - Psychology KW - architectuurfilosofie UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:654795 AB - 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? ER -