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100 1 _aWitt, Andrew,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aFormulations :
_barchitecture, mathematics, culture /
_cAndrew Witt.
264 1 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
_bThe MIT Press,
_c[2021]
300 _a428 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
336 _astill image
_bsti
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337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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490 0 _aWriting architecture series
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aModels, 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.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aArchitecture
_xMathematics.
843 _aPhotocopy
887 _2CamTech Library
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