Jeffrey Sipprell

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November 7, 2005

Minimal Surfaces - Off to Istanbul!

My apologies for not having written about the ol' minimal surface project in a while, but it's not exactly going the greatest. Thankfully it's time for the highlight of the quarter - the big trip abroad to Istabul. We'll be spending a day each in the Hagia Sofia, Blue Mosque and the Suleymaniye Mosque in an effort to understand minimal surfaces as they've been employed from a historical context. Though the ideas of the squinch and pendentive may seem pretty elementary, I believe they'll be hugely enlightening for the development of our complex systems as we begin to navigate the architectural issues related to the transference of curved geometry to more orthagonal conditions - ie what are these people going to walk on - not a starfish surface, that's for damn sure!

I'll post stuff along the way or at the very least when i get back. Toodles!

Posted by jsipprell at November 7, 2005 1:49 PM

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