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Precision in Architecture: Certainty, Ambiguity and Deviation book cover

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Precision in Architecture Certainty, Ambiguity and Deviation

By Mhairi McVicar Copyright 2019
280 Pages 100 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 100 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 100 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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 by Sigurd Lewerentz, Caruso St John Architects, Mies van der Rohe and OMA. In the professionalised context of the contemporary architectural profession, precise communications –... Read more

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

Biography

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.

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