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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
MAY/JUNE 2011
PROFILE NO 211
GUEST-EDITED BY MARIANA LEGUÍA
LATIN AMERICA AT
THE CROSSROADS
2 ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
ING 2 TITLES
JULY/AUGUST 2011 — PROFILE NO 212
MATHEMATICS OF SPACE
GUEST-EDITED BY E L LEGENDRE
Over the last 15 years, contemporary architecture has been profoundly altered by the advent
putation and information technology. The ubiquitous dissemination of design software
and numerical fabrication machinery have re-actualised the traditional role of geometry in
architecture and opened it up to the wondrous possibilities afforded by topology, non-Euclidean
geometry, parametric surface design and other areas of mathematics. From the technical aspects
of scripting code to the biomorphic paradigms of form and its associations with ics, the
impact putation on the discipline has been widely documented. What is less clear, and has
largely escaped scrutiny so far, is the role mathematics itself has played in this revolution. Hence
the time e for designers, computational designers and engineers to tease the mathematics
out of their respective works, not to merely show how it is done – a hard and futile challenge
for the audience – but to refl ect on the roots of the process and the way it shapes practices and
intellectual agendas, while helping defi ne new directions. This issue of 2 asks: Where do we
stand today? What is up with mathematics in design? Who is doing the most interesting work?
The impact of mathematics on contemporary creativity is effectively explored on its own terms.
• Contributors include: Mark Burry, Bernard Cache, Philippe Morel, Antoine Picon, Dennis
Shelden, Fabien Scheurer and Michael Weinstock.
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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2011 – PROFILE NO 213
RADICAL POST-MODERNISM
GUEST-EDITED BY CHARLES JENCKS AND FAT
Radical Post-Modernism (RPM) marks the resurgence of a critical architecture that
engages in a far-reaching way wi