Includes bibliographical references and index.

Models, Machines, Manuals, and Cabinets -- A Machine Epistemology: Encapsulated Knowledge and the Instrumentation of Architecture -- Theorems Made Flesh: The Architectonics of Mathematical Maquettes -- Alternate Dimensions: Measuring Space from Building to Hyperbody -- A Virtuality Atlas: Stereoscopic Drawing and Geometric Dream Space -- Illusion Engines: Drawing at the Speed of Light -- Labyrinths, Topology, and Meinong's Jungle: Architecture's Impossible Objects -- All You Need is Cube: The Political Economy of Grid Space -- Geometry's Mass Media: Broadcasting Technique in Architecture's Hyperbolic Era -- Crystal Collectives: Architecture's Chemical Subcultures -- Epilogue: Of Dabblers and Virtuosos.

"A history of the relationship between architecture and mathematics, with a special focus on the transition in the postwar period between analogue to digital design"--