Description
Mathematics has always been a vital tool in the architect’s trade, but the last fifteen years have seen a sharp rise in the power of computers and has led to computational abilities far beyond anything previously available. Modern design software and computing power have changed the traditional role of geometry in architecture and opened up new possibilities enabled by topology, non-Euclidean geometry, and other areas of mathematics.
With insight from a top-notch list of contributors, including such notables as Philippe Morel and Fabien Scheurer, Mathematics in Space discusses how the advent of computation and information technology has affected the work of contemporary architects.
- This new title in the Architectural Design series updates architectural mathematics since the digital revolution
- With world-class contributors, this is an essential resource for anyone interested in the ways computation has transformed the discipline
- The book explores fascinating issues in modern design, most importantly the impact of mathematics on contemporary design creativity
For students and practitioners alike, Mathematics of Space covers vital topics in a constantly changing discipline.
CONTENTS
- George L. Legendre: The Mathematics of Sensible Things
- Amy Dahan-Dalmedico: Mathematics and the Sensible World: Representing, Constructing, Simulating
- Antoine Picon: Architecture and Mathematics: Between Hubris and Restraint
- Architecture’s and mathematics’ enduring relationship is one of vicissitudes – embrace and estrangement – as charted by Antoine Picon
- Dennis R. Shelden and Andrew J. Witt: Continuity and Rupture
- George L. Legendre: IJP Explained: Parametric Mathematics in Practice
- Martha Tsigkari, Adam Davis and Francis Aish, Specialist Modelling Group, Foster + Partners: A Sense of Purpose: Mathematics and Performance in Environmental Design
- Daniel Bosia: Long Form and Algorithm
- Panagiotis Michalatos and Sawako Kaijima, Adams Kara Taylor (AKT): Intuitive Material Distributions
- Fabian Scheurer and Hanno Stehling: Lost in Parameter Space?
- Mark Burry: Geometry Working Beyond Effect
- Is descriptive geometry on the wane? Or as suggested by Mark Burry, does it enable us to make some significant distinctions between disciplines?
- Desargues and Leibniz: In the Black Box –
- Bernard Cache: A Mathematical Model of the Leibnizian Monad
- George L. Legendre: Pasta by Design
- Michael Weinstock: The Metabolism of the City: The Mathematics of Networks and Urban Surfaces
- Max Kahlen: Rising Masses, Singapore
- Ana María Flor Ortiz and Rodia Valladares Sánchez, Rising Masses Studio, Harvard Graduate School of Design: The Hinging Tower
- George L. Legendre and Max Kahlen: Implicit Fields – MOCAPE Shenzhen PRC
- Philippe Morel: Sense and Sensibilia
- Counterpoint
- Will McLean: Less Answers More Questions
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