Sculpting Metal Curvahedra

An Art Department piece in MAA Focus tracing the design process for the Gearhart Hall Curvahedra.

2022-01-01

Authors: E. O. Harriss
Published in: MAA Focus, 2022
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BibTeX

@article{sculpting-metal-curvahedra,
  title   = {Sculpting Metal Curvahedra},
  author  = {E. O. Harriss},
  journal = {MAA Focus},
  year    = {2022},
  volume  = {42},
  number  = {6},
  pages   = {50--51},
}

The sculpture begin in the “Place in Mind” honours course, cotaught with landscape architect Carl Smith, through to the Zip-Form fabrication technique. The mathematical strategy of distributing bending along a curved flat-cut steel sheet, welded in a T-shape, replaces the highly skilled single-point bending otherwise required for curved metal sculpture.

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