Formulations

 An 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.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 328 pages
• Dimensions 133 x 203 x 33.02mm | 566.99g
• Publication date 11 Jan 2022
• Publisher MIT Press Ltd
• Imprint Mit Press
• Publication City/Country United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note 115 B&W ILLUS.
• ISBN10 0262543001
• ISBN13 9780262543002