Architectures of chance /

• Main Author: Manolopoulou, Yeoryia (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2013]
• Series: Design research in architecture
• Subjects: Αρχιτεκτονική > Φιλοσοφία; Τύχη

Subject: "Architectural discourse and practice are dominated by a false dichotomy between design and chance, and governed by the belief that the architect's role is to defend against the indeterminate. In Architectures of Chance Yeoryia Manolopoulou challenges this position, arguing for th...

Table of Contents:

• Chance in Perception. Eyes and objects: after Beckett
• Crossings: viewing instrument I
• Behind the image
• Chance in Design. Projections: after Duchamp
• Shutters: House F
• Fields: drafting Pier 40
• The practice of observation
• Drawing as event
• Encounter and assemblage
• Fragment, part, whole
• Ironic fabrication
• Aleatoric form
• Double passage.