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OverviewAn investigation of mathematics as it was drawn, encoded, imagined, and interpreted by architects on the eve of digitization in the mid-twentieth century. In Formulations, Andrew Witt examines the visual, methodological, and cultural intersections between architecture and mathematics. The linkages Witt explores involve not the mystic transcendence of numbers invoked throughout architectural history, but rather architecture's encounters with a range of calculational systems-techniques that architects inventively retooled for design. Witt offers a catalog of mid-twentieth-century practices of mathematical drawing and calculation in design that preceded and anticipated digitization as well as an account of the formal compendia that became a cultural currency shared between modern mathematicians and modern architects. Witt presents a series of extensively illustrated ""biographies of method""-episodes that chart the myriad ways in which mathematics, particularly the mathematical notion of modeling and drawing, was spliced into the creative practice of design. These include early drawing machines that mechanized curvature; the incorporation of geometric maquettes-""theorems made flesh""-into the toolbox of design; the virtualization of buildings and landscapes through surveyed triangulation and photogrammetry; formal and functional topology; stereoscopic drawing; the economic implications of cubic matrices; and a strange synthesis of the technological, mineral, and biological- crystallographic design. Trained in both architecture and mathematics, Witt uses mathematics as a lens through which to understand the relationship between architecture and a much broader set of sciences and visual techniques. Through an intercultural exchange with other disciplines, he argues, architecture adapted not only the shapes and surfaces of mathematics but also its values and epistemic ideals. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Andrew WittPublisher: MIT Press Ltd Imprint: MIT Press Weight: 0.368kg ISBN: 9780262543002ISBN 10: 0262543001 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 11 January 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1 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 421ReviewsAuthor InformationAndrew 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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