Folding in Architecture
This seminal book from Architectural Design was originally published in 1993, at a time of crucial change and on the eve of the digital revolution.\ It brought together a series of essays that many believe created the favourable environment in which computer-based design could thrive. Considered one of the most influential architecture publications of the 1990s, this book ranks as a classic and in itself is a crucial chapter of history, though one that has been out of print since 1999. This...
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Examines architecture in relation to the mathematical concept of folding and catastrophe theory.
Preface6Introduction8Ten years of folding14Unfolding folding20Architectural curvilinearity : the folded, the pliant and the supple22The fold - Leibniz and the Baroque : the pleats of the matter30Folding in time : the singularity of Rebstock38Rebstock Park masterplan : Frankfurt, Germany42Alteka office building : Tokyo, Japan44Center for the Arts : Emory University, Atlanta46The points of space52The Anhalter folding54Towards a new architecture56Nara Convention Hall66Scottish national heritage : a living museum70Unfolding architecture72Out of the fold76The material fold : towards a variable narrative of anomalous topologies80Bentwood furniture82Lewis residence : Cleveland, Ohio84In VER(re[superscript *])T.GO90Prefectura Gymnasium94Stranded Sears tower98Croton aqueduct102Computer imaging : morphing and architectural representation106Interview with Mark Dippe : Terminator 2107First Interstate Bank tower110A note on the architectonics of folding
