Table of Contents

1 Models, Machines, Manuals, and Cabinets 9 
2 A Machine Epistemology: Encapsulated Knowledge and the Instrumentation of Architecture 31
3 Theorems Made Flesh: The Architectonics of Mathematical Maquettes 61
4 Alternate Dimensions: Measuring Space from Building to Hyperbody 101
5 A Virtuality Atlas: Stereoscopic Drawing and Geometric Dream Space 141
6 Illusion Engines: Drawing at the Speed of Light 181
7 Labyrinths, Topology, and Meinong's Jungle: Architecture's Impossible Objects 221
8 All You Need Is Cube: The Political Economy of Grid Space 273
9 Geometry's Mass Media: Broadcasting Technique in Architecture's Hyperbolic Era 307
10 Crystal Collectives: Architecture's Chemical Subcultures 343
11 Of Dabblers and Virtuosos 387
Notes 395
Acknowledgments 419
Index 421

About the Author

Andrew Witt is Associate Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and cofounder of Certain Measures, a design and technology studio based in Berlin and Boston.