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Mathematical Form: John Pickering and the Architecture of the Inversion Principle
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By Mohsen Mostafavi, John Silver, Patrik Schumacher, Geo Liaropoulos-Legendre, Pamela Johnston (Editor)
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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 ...