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Geometries with agency: mathematics of form revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2022

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Architectural production relies on form that can be drawn, quantified, and analysed through geometry. The incorporation of calculus-based form in the 1990s and the more recent incorporation of physics simulation has pushed the edge of formal and mathematical analysis, as well as of architectural production. Yet, mathematics remains largely invisible in the current landscape – rarely addressed in discourse and hidden behind software interfaces in daily practice. As Antoine Picon has noted, architecture has unprecedented access to mathematical objects, while at the same time remaining indifferent to its relation to mathematics.

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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , September 2021 , pp. 255 - 265
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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