Screen LibraryQuality out of control：standards for measuring architecture
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY |
| Publication Dates: | 2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xxi, 218 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780415553650 (hbk : alk. paper) 0415553652 (hbk : alk. paper) 9780415553667 (pbk : alk. paper) 0415553660 (pbk : alk. paper) 9780203861844 (ebk) 0203861841 (ebk) |
| Index Number: | TU |
| CLC: | TU-05 |
| Call Number: | TU-05/Q16 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-209) and index. Landscapes of experience / Adam Caruso, Adam Sharr and Allison Dutoit -- architect's signature as a sign of quality / Paul Emmons -- Quality beyond measure: architecture in the Lacanian account of culture / Catherine Belsey -- Afterword. Utter qualia: three probe/poems / Theodore Landrum. "There is widespread disagreement about what quality in architecture is, and how it can be measured and achieved. Formerly grounded in values of craftsmanship - in the skilled making of things - 'quality' is now associated with the management of administrative or technical processes. Whereas its appreciation was once based in the exercise of individual judgement and taste, increasingly it is founded on supposedly objective systems of evaluation." "Practitioners of design are under pressure to quantify quality, but it is questionable whether it is possible or even desirable to do so ..."--BOO |