Formulations : architecture, mathematics, culture /
Witt, Andrew,
Formulations : architecture, mathematics, culture / Andrew Witt. - 428 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Writing architecture series .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Models, Machines, Manuals, and Cabinets -- A Machine Epistemology: Encapsulated Knowledge and the Instrumentation of Architecture -- Theorems Made Flesh: The Architectonics of Mathematical Maquettes -- Alternate Dimensions: Measuring Space from Building to Hyperbody -- A Virtuality Atlas: Stereoscopic Drawing and Geometric Dream Space -- Illusion Engines: Drawing at the Speed of Light -- Labyrinths, Topology, and Meinong's Jungle: Architecture's Impossible Objects -- All You Need is Cube: The Political Economy of Grid Space -- Geometry's Mass Media: Broadcasting Technique in Architecture's Hyperbolic Era -- Crystal Collectives: Architecture's Chemical Subcultures -- Epilogue: Of Dabblers and Virtuosos.
"A history of the relationship between architecture and mathematics, with a special focus on the transition in the postwar period between analogue to digital design"--
9780262543002
2020053012
Architecture--Mathematics.
NA2750 / .W58 2021
720.1 WIT
Formulations : architecture, mathematics, culture / Andrew Witt. - 428 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Writing architecture series .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Models, Machines, Manuals, and Cabinets -- A Machine Epistemology: Encapsulated Knowledge and the Instrumentation of Architecture -- Theorems Made Flesh: The Architectonics of Mathematical Maquettes -- Alternate Dimensions: Measuring Space from Building to Hyperbody -- A Virtuality Atlas: Stereoscopic Drawing and Geometric Dream Space -- Illusion Engines: Drawing at the Speed of Light -- Labyrinths, Topology, and Meinong's Jungle: Architecture's Impossible Objects -- All You Need is Cube: The Political Economy of Grid Space -- Geometry's Mass Media: Broadcasting Technique in Architecture's Hyperbolic Era -- Crystal Collectives: Architecture's Chemical Subcultures -- Epilogue: Of Dabblers and Virtuosos.
"A history of the relationship between architecture and mathematics, with a special focus on the transition in the postwar period between analogue to digital design"--
9780262543002
2020053012
Architecture--Mathematics.
NA2750 / .W58 2021
720.1 WIT