Architectures of Chance

Download or read book Architectures of Chance written by Dr Yeoryia Manolopoulou and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architectural discourse is 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, this book challenges this position, arguing for the need to develop a more creative and spatial understanding of chance as experience, critical agency and a design practice in its own right. Architectures of Chance makes illuminating reading for those interested in aesthetic knowledge, design and its limits, and the poetics and ethics of chance and space in the overlapping fields of architecture and the aleatoric arts.