"(Un)Common Precedents In Architectural Design

(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.