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What We Want Is in That Room
Author(s) -
Gaynor Ilona,
Singleton Benedict
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1701
Subject(s) - singleton , space (punctuation) , studio , aesthetics , intervention (counseling) , work (physics) , architectural engineering , computer science , sociology , epistemology , visual arts , data science , psychology , art , engineering , philosophy , pregnancy , mechanical engineering , genetics , psychiatry , biology , operating system
Ilona Gaynor and Benedict Singleton , founding partners of design and research studio The Department of No, look beyond the specific technological possibilities of acute accuracy and explore the principle of zero tolerance as an aesthetic of precision. How is such an aesthetic at work when an architectural strategy places a heightened emphasis on the exact placement of objects in space and time? Could the precision in which a single spatial intervention is pursued have more fundamental and far‐reaching consequences than we ever imagined?