Workmanship and Imperfection: 10 Projects Between Hand and Machine

In 1968, the furniture designer and RCA professor David Pye published The Nature and Art of Workmanship , a book built around a distinction between "workmanship of risk" and the "workmanship of certainty." Pye was not writing about architecture, and despite how the phrase gets used today, he was not really writing about hands versus machines either. He pointed out that a printing press, entirely m