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Witt, Andrew,

Formulations : architecture, mathematics, culture. / txt Andrew Witt. - 428 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. book - 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: Architectures Chemical Subcultures --
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"--

ISBN: 9780262543002 0262543001

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Architecture--Mathematics.
Architecture--General.

LC Class. No.: NA2750 / W58 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 720.1/51