Entrée principale:

Witt, Andrew, author.

Titre et auteur:

Formulations : architecture, mathematics, culture / Andrew Witt.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]

Description:

428 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Série(s):

Writing architecture series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Encoded Architectures -- 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 Voxel Architecture -- Geometry's Mass Media: Broadcasting Technique in Architectures Hyperbolic Era -- Crystal Collectives: Architectures Chemical Subcultures -- Epilogue: Of Dabblers and Virtuosos.

Résumé:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780262543002 paperback
0262543001 paperback

Sujet:

Architecture Mathematics.
ARCHITECTURE / General.

Vedettes secondaires:

Writing architecture.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 315847
Cote: 315847
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Statut: Disponible