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Architectures of Chance [Paperback / softback]

  • Format: Paperback / softback, 280 pages, height x width: 240x220 mm, weight: 780 g
  • Series: Design Research in Architecture
  • Pub. Date: 11-Dec-2013
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1409435369
  • ISBN-13: 9781409435365
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  • Format: Paperback / softback, 280 pages, height x width: 240x220 mm, weight: 780 g
  • Series: Design Research in Architecture
  • Pub. Date: 11-Dec-2013
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1409435369
  • ISBN-13: 9781409435365
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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 the need to develop a more creative understanding of chance as aesthetic experience and critical method, and as a design practice in its own right. Examining the role of experimental chance across film, psychoanalysis, philosophy, fine art and performance, this is the first book to comprehensively discuss the idea of chance in architecture and bring a rich array of innovative practices of chance to the attention of architects. Wide-ranging and through a symbiotic interplay of drawing and text, Architectures of Chance makes illuminating reading for those interested in the process and experience of design, and the poetics and ethics of chance and space in the overlapping fields of architecture and the aleatoric arts.

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Recently in many architectural schools efforts intensified to further develop architectural research. Exciting new avenues are being explored, relying upon the design skills of architects and urban designers, combining them with intellectual rigor and in-depth thinking, in order to imagine new spatialities and to unfold hitherto unknown spatial experiences. This series highlights the innovative results of these explorations, opening up a new world of path-breaking research. Hilde Heynen, University of Leuven, Belgium 'This book calls us to think about architectural research as an opportunity to pose original questions, to employ different media and techniques, to introduce interdisciplinary discourse, and to acknowledge the open-endedness of architecture. Altogether the book easily absorbs the reader into its wonderful explorations. It invites us to appreciate, acknowledge, learn to recode, and even at times appropriate chance.' arq

List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgements xv
Opening xvii
Chance in Perception
A Eyes and Objects: After Beckett
3(12)
B Crossings: Viewing Instrument I
15(34)
1 Behind the Image
27(22)
Chance in Design
C Projections: After Duchamp
49(12)
D Shutters: House F
61(6)
E Fields: Drafting Pier 40
67(154)
2 The Practice of Observation
93(18)
3 Drawing as Event
111(26)
4 Encounter and Assemblage
137(18)
5 Fragment, Part, Whole
155(20)
6 Ironic Fabrication
175(18)
7 Aleatoric Form
193(28)
Double Passage
221(6)
Bibliography 227(12)
Index 239
Yeoryia Manolopoulou is Director of Architectural Research at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, and co-founder of the studio AY Architects.