Formulations - Andrew Witt

An Investigation Of Mathematics As It Was Drawn, Encoded, Imagined, And Interpreted By Architects On The Eve Of Digitization In The Mid-twentieth 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 Architectures Encounters With A Range Of Calculational Systemstechniques 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 Methodepisodes That Chart The Myriad Ways In Which Mathematics, Particularly The Mathematical Notion Of Modeling And Drawing, Was Spliced Into The Creative Practice Of Design.