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Edward Ford in his The Grand Work of Fiction: The Detail as Narrative articulates the importance of “detail” in architecture. The author starts his argument by disagreeing to Rem Koolhaas’ idea that roof meeting the wall (two parts) do not generate something else. Ford however refers to Lorenzo Marasso and agrees that form should be seen as a composite whole, and thus we should see the importance in detail of joints. From this, a narrative of details revealing the composition of how parts make up the whole is highlighted through several examples that Ford lists including Herzog & de Meuron’s MH de Young Memorial Museum and Tod Williams Architects’ Barnes Foundation. Through the author’s interpretation and analysis of these examples, the main

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