Francesca Hughes “The Architecture of Error: Matter, Measure and the Misadventures of Precision“

February 12, 2015 Part of the MIT Department of Architecture 2014-2015 Public Lecture Series titled “Experiments in Architecture“ The rejection of organic materials that marked the material tolerance crises central to modernity didn’t just produce the steel and glass icons we know so well, but also a generation of newly metalized aircraft that were so heavy they could not fly. These engineered dodos, which resulted directly from architecture’s ideological reconfigurations around predictability, precision a