"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"--
"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"--
Andrew Witt is Associate Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and cofounder of Certain Measures, a design and technology studio based in Berlin and Boston.
Inhaltsangabe
1 Models, Machines, Manuals, and Cabinets 9 2 A Machine Epistemology: Encapsulated Knowledge and the Instrumentation of Architecture 31 3 Theorems Made Flesh: The Architectonics of Mathematical Maquettes 61 4 Alternate Dimensions: Measuring Space from Building to Hyperbody 101 5 A Virtuality Atlas: Stereoscopic Drawing and Geometric Dream Space 141 6 Illusion Engines: Drawing at the Speed of Light 181 7 Labyrinths, Topology, and Meinong's Jungle: Architecture's Impossible Objects 221 8 All You Need Is Cube: The Political Economy of Grid Space 273 9 Geometry's Mass Media: Broadcasting Technique in Architecture's Hyperbolic Era 307 10 Crystal Collectives: Architecture's Chemical Subcultures 343 11 Of Dabblers and Virtuosos 387 Notes 395 Acknowledgments 419 Index 421
1 Models, Machines, Manuals, and Cabinets 9 2 A Machine Epistemology: Encapsulated Knowledge and the Instrumentation of Architecture 31 3 Theorems Made Flesh: The Architectonics of Mathematical Maquettes 61 4 Alternate Dimensions: Measuring Space from Building to Hyperbody 101 5 A Virtuality Atlas: Stereoscopic Drawing and Geometric Dream Space 141 6 Illusion Engines: Drawing at the Speed of Light 181 7 Labyrinths, Topology, and Meinong's Jungle: Architecture's Impossible Objects 221 8 All You Need Is Cube: The Political Economy of Grid Space 273 9 Geometry's Mass Media: Broadcasting Technique in Architecture's Hyperbolic Era 307 10 Crystal Collectives: Architecture's Chemical Subcultures 343 11 Of Dabblers and Virtuosos 387 Notes 395 Acknowledgments 419 Index 421
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