Mhairi Mcvicar

Precision in Architecture

Certainty, Ambiguity and Deviation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a detailed insight into the desire for, and consequences of, precise communications in the daily life of contemporary architectural practice through close readings of constructed architectural details and the practice of cultural contexts in which they were produced.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780415789615
• ISBN-10: 0415789613
• Artikelnr.: 56850119

Autorenporträt

Mhairi McVicar is a Reader at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, UK and practiced architecture in Chicago, London and the Orkney Islands. Her research, critically examining intersections between architectural theory and architectural practice, has been published with Routledge and Architectural Research Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.
Part I: Two Projects
1. A Precisely Ambiguous Wall
2. The Mortar Joints of St Peter's
Part II: Interpretations of Precision in Architecture
3. Defining Precision and Ambiguity
4. Disputing Precision
5. An Emerging Desire for Precision
Part III: Four Projects
The 1856 Iron Museum and the 2006 Museum of Childhood
6. A Precise Specification for an Iron Museum
7. Anticipating Precision at the Museum of Childhood
A Meeting between Mies and OMA
8. Deviation at the Commons
9. A Precisely Crude Ceiling at the MTCC
10. Productive Deviations from Certainty