Formulations : architecture, mathematics, culture / Andrew Witt.
Material type: TextSeries: Writing architecture seriesPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]Description: 428 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780262543002
- 720.1 WIT 23
- NA2750 .W58 2021
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Books | CamTech Library | FaB's Corner, Faculty of Build Environment | 720.1 WIT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | C.1 | Available | CamTech 001052 |
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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