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Formulations      Architecture, Mathematics, Culture         Writing Architecture Series

Formulations Architecture, Mathematics, Culture Writing Architecture Series

Formulations Architecture, Mathematics, Culture Writing Architecture Series

$39.95

Witt, Andrew.

MIT 2021

SKU S03536

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.

428 pp. Several B/W illus.