Architecture and Mathematics have constantly balanced between two extremes: an experiential dimension often imbued with contemplative connotations, and the quest for operative techniques that do not necessarily present a spatial meaning. Hence the ambiguity we find ourselves in today, faced simultaneously with architecture’s estrangement from mathematics and the spectacular diffusion of computational tools. — Antoine Picon, ‘Between Intuition and the Quest for Operative Techniques’, public lecture, Symposium on ‘Mathematics in Space’, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 5 March 2010.
