Title & Author:

(Un)common precedents in architectural design / edited by Federica Goffi, Isabel Potworowski and Kristin Washco.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2026.
©2026

Description:

xxxii, 380 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Federica Goffi, Isabel Potworowski, and Kristin Washco -- Part I: (Un)Common Intentions: Why We Study Precedents -- (Un)Common Workshop I -- (Un)Common Relationalities: Between Architecture and Indigenous Engagement Research Practices / Wanda Dalla Costa interviewed by Federica Goffi, Isabel Potworowski and Kristin Washco -- The Anti-Precedent -- 1. Encountering History: Precedent Avoidance at the Bauhaus and Its Legacy / Jodi La Coe -- 2. Precedents in Architecture: Design, History and Discontinuity / Berrin Terim -- 3. The Immanent Collapse as Precedent: Chronopathological Compulsions / Claudio Sgarbi and Talia Trainin -- Subverting Precedents -- 4. Dis/continuous Genealogies: Douglas Darden's Ideograms / Marc J. Neveu -- 5. Uncommon References: Le Corbusier, the Primal and the Flesh of Matter / Maria João Moreira Soares and João Miguel Couto Duarte -- 6. Architectures beyond an Architect: Uncommon Practices from the Uncommon Global Majority in Post-Apartheid South Africa / Jhono Bennett -- 7. The Drawings of Lat: The Graphic Novel as an Uncommon Precedent for Knowing, Seeing, and Thinking about Architecture / Yvette Putra -- (Un)Common Workshop II -- Between Music and Architecture: Sounding the Precedent / Jesse Stewart in conversation with Federica Goffi and Isabel Potworowski -- Part II: (Un)Common References: What We Study -- The Divergence of Precedents -- 8. (Un)Common by Sex: Urgent Archival Inclusions and the International Archive of Women in Architecture / Paola Zellner Bassett -- 9. Without Walls: Citing Sites Beyond "Parallel of Life and Art" / Ashley Mason -- 10. Architectural Rehearsal: Unearthing Embodied Architectural Precedents / Aurélie Dupuis -- Reexamining Typologies -- 11. Uncommon Constructions: Departures from the Ubiquitous Canadian Wood-Frame House / Janine Debanné -- 12. The Department Store's Lapidary Imagination / Don Kunze
13. Re-Examining and Repositioning the Idea of Dwelling in Typological Planning in Post-World-War Japan / Izumi Kuroishi -- 14. Observation, Documentation, and Imagined Situations of Life: The Yeouido Sibum Apartments as an Uncommon South Korean Modern Architectural Precedent / Yoonchun Jung -- (Un)Common Workshop III -- Between Literature and Architecture: Writing as a Mode of Investigation / Klaske Havik in conversation with Suzanne Harris-Brandts and Isabel Potworowski -- Part III: (Un)Common (Trans)Media and Methods: How We Study Precedents -- The Sensorium -- 15. Un/Sound Histories: Finding the Uncommon in the Work of Adolf Loos / Nina Vollenbröker -- 16. Precedents as Spoken Constructions: Imagining through Shared Oral Recollections in Architects' Design Conversations / Naomi Gibson -- 17. Poetic Language as a Thinking with Things: Storytelling and the Imagination of Matter in Bruno Schulz's Mythization / Anca Matyiku -- 18. Transversal Echotectonics: Finding an Uncommon Model of Architectural Sonics in the Work of Athanasius Kircher / Jonathan Tyrell -- Drawings, Models, Film and Pedagogy -- 19. Film-Writing Architecture / Thi Phuong-Trâm Nguyen -- 20. A Path Not Taken: A Study on the Beginning of Álvaro Siza's Project for the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto / Bruno Silvestre -- 21. THEEND: Matta-Clark's South American Cut / Camila Mancilla Vera -- 22. Drawing Continuously: A Report on Two Projects / Pari Riahi -- (Un)Common Workshop IV -- Between Gastronomy and Architecture: Recipes for Building / Ken Albala in conversation with Sheryl Boyle and Kristin Washco

Summary:

"(Un)Common Precedents in Architectural Design calls for an attentive examination of the uncommon that inspires creativity, prompting a re-examination of both common and marginalised precedents. Precedents and their origins can be idiosyncratic, and it is not surprising that they often lead to unpredictable outcomes. The uncommon is explored as an undervalued, unregulated, and informal approach to precedents, acknowledging a radical imagination in architectural design that extends beyond visual and typological considerations, expanding the field of influence beyond buildings to investigate interdisciplinary exchanges and a multisensory imagination. This book addresses a critical need to re-examine architectural precedents, understanding why, how, and what we study to reveal the intentions, transmedia explorations, and referents behind the workings of a more inclusive architectural imagination nurtured in multicultural practices and teaching environments. (Un)Common Precedents thus underlines the non-conformity and inordinance of precedents and the necessity of their divergence, drawing attention to different socio-political contexts that resist, reject, and replace the canonisation of precedents based on dominant ocular-centric approaches with local, experiential, transdisciplinary, and uncommon ones. The book offers an alternative to the compulsion to normalise, universalise, repeat, restate, and re-enact, transforming the documentation of far-removed precedents through first-person experiences"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781032823928 hardcover
1032823925 hardcover
9781032823102 paperback
1032823100 paperback
electronic book
9781003504283

Subject:

Architectural design.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Design architectural.

Added entries:

Goffi, Federica, editor.
Potworowski, Isabel, editor.
Washco, Kristin, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room new acquisitions 325375
Call No.: 325375
Copy: 1
Status: Available