Mathematical Form: John Pickering and the Architecture of The Inversion Principle - Softcover

Pickering, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1902902378 ISBN 13: 9781902902371

Publisher: Architectural Assn, 2007

Synopsis

MP_MQ = MR2. Using this arcane formula, known to mathematicians as "the inversion principle," architect and modernday alchemist John Pickering manages to torque a numerical sequence into a physical body. The works that emerge are in one sense magical, set firmly within the architectural tradition of the visionary form. Yet, because of the mathematical rigor that underpins them, they are also eminently rational, engineered, potent, and, indeed, buildable.

Mathematical Form steps outside the conventions of the artist's monograph by considering, on an equal level, the meticulous process of making the work and the finished forms themselves, discussing their engineering implications and the inspirations from Stockhausen to Sputnik behind them.

About this edition

• Publisher: Architectural Assn
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1902902378
• ISBN 13: 9781902902371
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72
• Editor: Johnston Pamela