This thesis attempts to theorize the architectural detail as a point of departure for the design process. It ascribes value to informality and in turn produces an aesthetic of looseness and precarity that devalues conventional architectural order in favor of material intensity and local, object-to-object relationships. 

The following project revolves much of its conversation around craft and making, and how certain operations and procedures throughout this process can produce an aesthetic. While the project capitalizes on the usage of the terms clumsy and odd, these two aesthetic categories are meant to be interrogated on a technical level to guide material explorations as well as uncommon spatial and organizational principles; the project is less interested in their ability to provoke feeling and affect. The thesis explores the design of a technique rather than a finished building.

While the conventional architectural detail operates on a deep appreciation of material culture and history, this thesis emphasizes the use of humble materials in their raw and unpolished forms in a way that differs from their common, post-processed state to produce details that are formally and aesthetically informal. Likewise, while the conventional architectural detail normalizes precision to institute value in how systems and their components come together, this thesis leverages the informality of details to establish larger-scaled organizational moves that lack dexterity and generate precarious assemblages. The resultant combinatory logic of clumsy craft and odd tectonics claims value in a contemporary aesthetic that questions traditional understandings of material culture and architectural organizational strategies.