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When architects draw even brick walls to six decimal places with software designed to cut lenses, it is clear that the logic that once organized relations between precision and material error in construction has unraveled. Precision, already a promiscuous term, seems now to have…
Why the rise of redundant precision in architecture and the accompanying fear of error are key to understanding the discipline's needs, anxieties and desires.
Presents great architectural achievements of exceptional architects including The Escorial, Sagrada Familia Church of Barcelona, The Taj Mahal, Taivallahti Church of Helsinki, Le Corbusier's Chapel at Ronchamp, Fontainebleau, Belvedere Castle, and Guggenheim Museum.