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Ever since building began, architecture has relied on mathematics to achieve visual harmony, structural integrity, and logical construction. For most of the history of building, architects have applied the principles of Euclidean geometry, the description of points, lines, and volumes according to the three axes of space.



Recently, however, digital design tools and massive computer processing power, along with an increasing interest in physics and pure mathematics, have given architects the means to describe and build spatial constructs that would have been inconceivable even ten years ago.



This carefully researched survey of some forty international projects--largely built--offers an overview of how different strategies are being employed through accessible illustrations and clear text. Each section presents case studies of projects by globally recognized architects through diagrams, photographs, and texts.

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Library Journal Review

Roughly five years ago, Harvard's K. Michael Hays wrote a telling essay, "Architecture by Numbers," on the growing worldwide compact between digital design and architectural design. This book surveys the growing landscape of current and forthcoming digital design-about 30 projects-to reveal the continuing reach of this new algorithmic "science" of design into architecture. Ironically, few of the designs and buildings illustrated here can be wholly divorced from natural phenomena, such as schisms, chaos, fractals, fluids, streamlines, hyperbole, topology, etc. Simultaneously, much of it is also minimally and typologically mathematical. This book is merely a digitally produced portfolio of specific projects and works, aimed at the international audience of designers and clients, both students and practitioners. The main interests are mathematics and geometries. The book does not contain any of the historical or humanistic interpretation found in Antoine Picon's most recent Digital Culture in Architecture, which powerfully circumscribes the current style into "a Second Enlightenment." VERDICT Fans of this theory of architecture will be interested.-Peter S. Kaufman, Boston Architectural Coll. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.