Andrew Witt: Formulations | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780262543002 | Formulations | Architecture, Mathematics, Culture | Andrew Witt | Buch

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Beschreibung

"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"--

Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Importe , Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Architektur
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Writing Architecture
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780262543002
ISBN-10:	0262543001
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Witt, Andrew
Hersteller:	MIT Press Ltd Writing Architecture
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	204 x 141 x 32 mm
Von/Mit:	Andrew Witt
Erscheinungsdatum:	11.01.2022
Gewicht:	0,552 kg