The Book of Errors

by Annie Coggan

Overview

The Book of Errors by Annie Coggan is a tale of three architects who shaped and altered the stories of three historic American structures—the Henry Knox Museum in Maine, Fraunces Tavern in New York City, and the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia. The book takes its title from the preservation missteps and preconceptions of those involved. Through her renderings of imagined architectures, Annie Coggan considers how narratives of history are configured. The parallel stories by Mark Hage—entwining the factual and the imagined—frame and give form to these portraits, giving overall shape to the interaction of text and image. A collection of drawings, ephemera, and imaginings, The Book of Errors​ ​invites us to new possibilities that may or may not have happened, but that become stories of our mind, each in our unique way. With an introduction by Brigid Hughes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781734590791
Publisher:	A Public Space
Publication date:	08/24/2021
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Annie Coggan is a principal with Chairs and Buildings Studio and a professor at Pratt Institute School of Design. A contributing editor to A Public Space, she lives in Brooklyn, New York; and Belfast, Maine.

Table of Contents

Introduction i

Re-Conjecture 1

General Henry Knox Museum, Thomaston, Maine

Built 1794, Reconstructed 1929

Re-Imagination 23

Fraunces Tavern, New York City

Built Early 1700s, Reconstructed 1907

Re-Configuration 37

Betsy Ross House, Philadelphia

Built c.1740, Reconstructed 1937

Editorial Reviews

Fact and fiction intertwine in this project—fact and fiction, real and imaginary, dance in this book—daring the reader to see preservation and architectural history as something playful and more inclusive of creativity than one might think.”—World Architects

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