Insuring Artificial Stone
This paper examines experiments to increase the durability of architecture as a means to manage the risk of catastrophic loss through tangible systems of artificial material and intangible systems of insurance. At the intersection of these dyads is Coade’s Artificial Stone Manufactory conducting ex...
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Architectural Research Centers Consortium
2023-11-01
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This paper examines experiments to increase the durability of architecture as a means to manage the risk of catastrophic loss through tangible systems of artificial material and intangible systems of insurance. At the intersection of these dyads is Coade’s Artificial Stone Manufactory conducting experiments in architecture to yield an ornament useful in securing capital from 1769 - 1821. Selling goods from the south bank of the River Thames in London, Coade’s made use of a catalog to mediate the global exchange between the site of production and construction. For architects and builders, these commodities construct a modern architecture relying upon cheapness, mass production, and abstraction. The utility of this artificial stone explicates a relationship between durability and catastrophic failure at work in the manufacture of modern architecture.
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| spelling | doaj.art-841e1c5091464cf7878c0368246ff94e2023-11-20T02:54:28ZengArchitectural Research Centers ConsortiumEnquiry: The ARCC Journal of Architectural Research2329-93392023-11-01202Insuring Artificial Stone Kyle Stover This paper examines experiments to increase the durability of architecture as a means to manage the risk of catastrophic loss through tangible systems of artificial material and intangible systems of insurance. At the intersection of these dyads is Coade’s Artificial Stone Manufactory conducting experiments in architecture to yield an ornament useful in securing capital from 1769 - 1821. Selling goods from the south bank of the River Thames in London, Coade’s made use of a catalog to mediate the global exchange between the site of production and construction. For architects and builders, these commodities construct a modern architecture relying upon cheapness, mass production, and abstraction. The utility of this artificial stone explicates a relationship between durability and catastrophic failure at work in the manufacture of modern architecture. https://www.arcc-journal.org/index.php/arccjournal/article/view/1158artificial stoneEleanor Coaderisk, ornamentmodern architecture |
| spellingShingle | Kyle Stover Insuring Artificial Stone Enquiry: The ARCC Journal of Architectural Research artificial stone Eleanor Coade risk, ornament modern architecture |
| title | Insuring Artificial Stone |
| title_full | Insuring Artificial Stone |
| title_fullStr | Insuring Artificial Stone |
| title_full_unstemmed | Insuring Artificial Stone |
| title_short | Insuring Artificial Stone |
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| topic | artificial stone Eleanor Coade risk, ornament modern architecture |
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