THE ARCHITECTURE OF ERROR

When architects draw even brick walls to six decimal places with software designed to cut lenses, it is clear that the logic that on ce organized relations between precision and material error in construction has unraveled. Precision, already a promiscuous term, se ems 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 architects acute fetishization of redu ndant prec...[Leer más]