Hailed by friend and frequent collaborator Rem Koolhaas as having "almost single-handedly shifted the ground in engineering ... and enabled architecture to be imagined differently," Cecil Balmond has
Number 9 tells the story of Enjil, a boy mathematician who is challenged by a spirit to solve the riddle, What is the fixed point of the wind? As Enjil searches for the answer, he and the reader embar
Balmond is making the transition from structural engineer working alongside other architects to an architect in his own right. His structural thinking differs from that of others in his field, in its
