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JOSEPH CHOMA: “Morphing: A Guide to Mathematical Transformations for Architects and Designers”

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Alumni of the Rensselaer School of Architecture and founder of the Design Topology Lab, Joseph Choma, Class of 2009, has recently published “Morphing: A Guide to Mathematical Transformations for Architects and Designers”  – a visually striking guidebook that clearly and systematically lays the foundation for using mathematical transformations as design tools.

“Cylinders, spheres and cubes are a small handful of shapes that can be defined by a single word. However, most shapes cannot be found in a dictionary. They belong to an alternative plastic world defined by trigonometry: a mathematical world where all shapes can be described under one systematic language and where any shape can transform into another.”

Morphing is intended for architects, designers, and anyone with the curiosity to understand the link between shapes and the equations behind them. Its author, Joseph Choma, is the founder of the Design Topology Lab, an interdisciplinary design research practice. Choma’s research interests lie at the intersection of perception, computation, epistemology and pedagogy. He completed his graduate studies in design and computation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and obtained a professional degree in architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Currently, Joseph teaches within the School of Architecture at Clemson University.

See the following links for more information on Joseph Choma and his work.

Morphing: morphingbook.com
Animation: vimeo.com/117500316
Design Topology Lab: designtopology.com

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