Testing to Failure: Design and Research in MIT's Department of Architecture

Sarah M. Hirschman (editor)

ISBN 10: 0983665400 / ISBN 13: 9780983665403

Published by SA+P Press October 2011, 2011

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Front corners bent but not creased, rear very slightly bent, no rubbing, no creases to the spine or gutters. A very nice copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Testing to Failure: Design and Research in MIT's Department of Architecture
• Publisher: SA+P Press October 2011
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0983665400
• ISBN 13: 9780983665403
• Binding: Paper Back
• Illustrator: Lindsay Anmuth
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art::Architecture

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Synopsis

Testing to Failure contains a wide selection of research and work from the MIT Department of Architecture, produced between 2009 and 2011. Including student work, the work of professors' own practices, contributions from visiting critics, transcripts from the MIT150 Celebration Symposia, and more, what is presented in this book is a sequence of 'forums,' knots of discussion where the various threads that run through the department reach asymptotically towards definition. Chapter headings include Strategy; Extra Large; Numerics; Global; Archive; Survival; Misuse; and Support. Inspecting our work to find truths is a project of fiction, and it results in a kind of architectural hypochondria. Are we this? Are we that? Is this an infection? What's this bug that we can't shake? But better a hypochondria of productivity, of curiosity, and of possibility than a shortsighted clamoring for false unity.

About the Author

Testing to Failure is a collective work of student and faculty in MIT's Department of Architecture. Ms. Sarah Hirschman, editor, graduated with an MArch degree in 2011. Other members of the editorial team consist of Nader Tehrani, Professor and Department Head, and Arindam Dutta, Professor in MIT's History, Theory and Criticism Program.