CONTESTED SYMMETRIES AND OTHER PREDICAMENTS IN ARCHITECTURE PRESTON SCOTT COHEN

CONTESTED SYMMETRIES AND OTHER PREDICAMENTS IN ARCHITECTURE PRESTON SCOTT COHEN

CONTESTED SYMMETRIES AND OTHER PREDICAMENTS IN ARCHITECTURE PRESTON SCOTT COHEN

This book examines how predicaments generate architecture. Buildings fall prey to predicaments when architects, in attempting to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles and to conceal all that must be done in order to do so, resort to the use of strange and exceptional forms. The process of unearthing and introducing architectural predicaments can expose and ultimately lead to the revision of norms, assumptions and standards that usually remain undetected in architecture.

Mark Lamster