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Perspecta 46

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9780262525039
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2013 MIT Press
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Joseph Clarke
Emma Bloomfield

Purchase $ Perspecta 46 at MIT Press

Architecture never goes entirely according to plan. Every project deviates from its designers’ expectations, and wise architects learn to anticipate, mitigate, and sometimes celebrate the errors along the way. Perspecta 46 argues that error is part of architecture’s essence: mistranslations, contradictions, happy accidents, and wicked problems pervade our systems of design and building, almost always yielding surprising aberrations. Today, with increasingly complex projects underpinned by layers of computer code, small errors can proliferate rapidly, and the dream of errorless architecture seems more utopian than ever.

This issue of Perspecta—the oldest and most distinguished student-edited architectural journal in America—considers the challenge of defining error, the difficulty of diagnosing and managing it, and the promise (and peril) of following its lead. Essays and projects illuminate error’s ambiguous agency both in reality and in the architectural imagination, covering topics that range from Dante’s cosmos of divine justice and Michelangelo’s architectural “abuses” to Dada urbanism and the warped skyscrapers of Google Earth.

Contents

Sean Keller—Ways about error

Anna Neimark & Andrew Atwood—How to domesticate a mountain

Puitt-Igoe from the ground up

Daniel Sherer—Error or invention? Critical receptions of Michelangelo’s architecture from Pirro Ligorio to Teofilo Gallaccini

Pirro Ligorio—Treatise on the nobility of the ancient arts

Rudy Ricciotti—Musée Jean Cocteau

Bryan Boyer & Justin Cook—Clearing the cowshed

Clement Valla—Postcards from Google Earth

Stanley Tigerman—Apophasis, wabi-sabi, and the ethics of errancy

Jason Mena—Lights out for the territory

John Harwood—Corporate abstraction

Angie Waller—Patents for workstations 1990-2002

Aarati Kanekar—Detours through autonomy: mismappings in translating the Divine Comedy

Supermanoeuvre—The clouds of Venice

Elihu Rubin—Hedging your bets: actuarial science, architecture, and urban development

Maison Edouard François—Foquet’s Barrière Hotel

Asli Serbest & Mona Mahall—Theory of the impossibility of a theory of error

Nat Chard—Machines for indeterminate architecture

Susan Wager—'The Dadas Tour Paris’: toward an expanded definition of the Dada diagram

MOS Architects—Already happened tomorrow