ematical functions which regulate the procedures of conjunction, separation, deformation. The process, in its becoming, makes the results as well as the objectives mutable. Once defined the interval of the space and its mathematical progression, in asintotic curves differently directed are placed as cubes at 4-N, repeated for a certain number of times. Every building is constructed from the matching of a couple of cubes. Every couple contains two solid cubes (visible shapes) and two cubic frames (internal structures) of 12 and 14 meters corresponding to the dimensions of the module that defines the architectural space destined to receive the offices and the laboratories of the CMRI. Every couple can be seen as a projection of the other, inverting the rapport between solid and frame (Figure 2). The wealth and the complexity of the formal result of the project derive from these simple operations. [Oechlin, 1991] (Figure 3).THE ARONOFF CENTER AT THE COLLEGE OF DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE, ART AND PLANNINGWhatever the subject, in the era of information dominated by the media, teaching has a moral obligation to describe how and why it works. Convinced of this, Eisenman makes the plan for the Aronoff Center at the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1988-1983) a sort of manifesto of the education imparted by the University of Cincinnati [Ciorra, 1993] (Figure 4). Here, the structures that already existed are related to the orthography of the place: a double curve, deviated, redoubled and deformed with the help of computer simulation, is transferred into tridimensional space (Figure 5). The configuration that descends from it contains within itself the figurative force structuring the compositive solution. The procedure reminds one the traditional cut of precious stones or the formal reasoning applied by Lewis Carroll to the studies of Hilbert [Hilbert and Cohn-Vossen, 1932] . The finished wo...
