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CONTENTS FOREWORD: WEAPONS OF THE GODS by Brett Steele 6 INTRODUCTION: MATHEMATICS AND DESIGN 1 MATHEMATICAL SURFACES AND SERIALITY Australian Wildlife Health Centre MINIFIE NIXON Healesville Sanctuary, Australia Beijing International Airport FOSTER + PARTNERS Beijing, China Inversion Modelling JOHN PICKERING Woiverhampton, UK Sagrada Familia ANTONI GAUD Barcelona, Spain Main Station Stuttgart INGENHOVEN ARCHITECTS Stuttgart, Germany Disney Concert Hall GEHRY PARTNERS Los Angeles, California, USA Abu Dhabi Airport KOHN PEDERSEN FOX Abu Dhabi, UAE CHAOS, COMPLEXITY, EMERGENCE Federation Square LAB ARCHITECTURE STUDIO Melcourne, Australia Louvre Abu Dhabi ATELIERS JEAN NOUVEL Abu Dhabi, UAE Jyvaskyla Music and Arts Centre OCEAN NORTH Jyvaskyla, Finland Seroussi Pavilion BIOTHING Paris, France 9 PACKING AND TILING Battersea Power Station ARUPAGU London. UK The Water Cube PTW ARCHITECTS Beijing, China Grand Egyptian Museum HENEGHAN PENG Cairo, Egypt The Spiral Extension DANIEL LIBESKIND Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK Storey Hall ASHTON RAGGATT MCDOUGALL Royai Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia Spanish Pavilion FOREIGN OFFICE ARCHITECTS Expo 2005, Aichi, Japan Centre for Ideas MINIFIE NIXON Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia OPTIMIZATION 111 British Museum Great Court FOSTER + PARTNERS 122 London, UK Smithsonian Institution FOSTER + PARTNERS 126 Washington, DC, USA Qatar Education City Convention Centre ARATA ISOZAKI 130 Doha, Qatar Melbourne Rectangular Stadium cox ARCHITECTS 135 Melbourne, Australia island City Central Park TOYO ITO 138 Fukuoka, Japan The Pinnacle KOHN PEDERSEN FOX 142 London, UK Al Raha Development FOSTER + PARTNERS 148 Abu Dhabi. UAE Melbourne Recital Centre ASHTON RAGGATT MCDOUGALL 152 Melbourne, Australia TOPOLOGY156 Mobius House UN STUDIO 162 Het Gooi, Netherlands Arnhem Central UN STUDIO 166 Arnhem, Netherlands Paramorphll DECOI ARCHITECTS 170 London, UK Cape Schanck House PAUL MORGAN ARCHITECTS 174 Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia o Blowhouse: Life Support Unit PAUL MORGAN ARCHITECTS 178 Mormnpton Peninsula, Victoria, Australia Slavin House GREG LYNN 182 Venice, California, USA Klein Bottle House MCBRIDE CHARLES RYAN 186 Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia Mobius Bridge HAKES ASSOCIATES 192 Bristol, UK Villa Nurbs CLOUD ARCHITECTURE 194 Girona, Spain National Museum of Australia ASHTON RAGGATT MCDOUGALL 200 Canberra, Australia Metropolitan Opera House TOYO ITO 204 Taichung, Taiwan DATASCAPES AND MULTI-DIMENSIONALITY210 De Draai Extension KARRES EN BRANDS 214 Heerhugowaard, Netherlands freshHtwoOexpo NOX ARCHITECTS 218 Zeeland, Netherlands Streaming House MINIFIE NIXON 222 Melbourne, Australia Aegis Hyposurface DECOI ARCHITECTS 226 Birmingham, UK Spoorg SERVO 230 Los Angeles, California, USA Hotel Prestige Forest CLOUD 9 ARCHITECTURE 234 Barcelona, Spain Yas Hotel ASYMPTOTE 238 Abu Dhabi, UAE Muscle Reconfigured + Interactive Wall HYPERBODY 242 Delft, Netherlands Digital Water Pavilion CARLO RATTI ASSOCIATI 248 Zaragoza, Spain GLOSSARY 252 NOTES 267 BIBLIOGRAPHY 268 PROJECT CREDITS 269 PHOTO CREDITS 271 |
