Pasta by Design - Hardcover

Legendre, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500515808 ISBN 13: 9780500515808

Verlag: Thames & Hudson, 2011

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Everyone loves pasta, but despite myriad cookbooks no one has ever seen the world s favorite food presented like this. Created by a team of obsessive designers, this unique book reveals the hidden mathematical beauty that cooks across the globe have taken for granted since Marco Polo.Pasta s wonderful, sometimes whimsical, geometrical shapes and surfaces are designed to hold certain sauces or accompaniments, to be beautiful yet functional. Here are over ninety forms of pasta, each shown through especially commissioned photographs, mathematical formulae that accurately describe each shape, and drawings that reveal the hidden genius of our everyday food. Brief texts describe the special attributes of each form of pasta, along with advice on specific uses in cooking.

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George L. Legendre is a partner at IJP Architects in London, and was shortlisted for the NY MoMA PSI pavilion in the summer of 2011. IJP’s work has been featured on the cover of the RIBA Journal, Mondo Arc Perspective + and Icon/i> Magazine. George has guest-edited a special issue of AD Magazine on the Mathematics of Sensible Things.

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This is not a cookbook; this is an entirely fresh and idiosyncratic look at the worlds most popular food. Architect George L. Legrande has compiled and profiled 92 different kinds of pasta, classifying them into types using the science of phylogeny (the study of relatedness among natural forms). Opening the book is a pasta family tree, revealing unexpected relationships between pasta shapes, their usage and common DNA. Each subsequent spread is devoted to a single pasta, and features a short text that explains the foods geographical origin, its process of manufacture as well as its etymology alongside suggestions for minute-perfect preparation. Next the pasta shape is rendered as both a mathematical equation and a line diagram that displays every distinctive scrunch, ridge and crimp with loving precision. Photographs by Stefano Graziani complement these meticulous renderings, showing the elegant contours of each pasta shape. Finally a gatefold features a Pasta Family Reunion diagram, reassembling the pasta types and grouping them by their mathematical and geometric properties.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0500515808
• ISBN 13: 9780500515808
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
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