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Originally published in 1971 The Geometry of Environment is a
fusion of art and mathematics introducing stimulating ideas from
modern geometry, using illustrations from architecture and design.
The revolution in the teaching of mathematics and the advent of the
computer in design challenge traditional ways of appreciating the
space about us, and expand the 'structural' understanding of our
surroundings through such concepts as transformations, symmetry
groups, sets and graphs. This book aims to show the relevance of
'new maths' and encourages exploration of the widening intellectual
horizons of environmental design and architecture.
Originally published in 1971 The Geometry of Environment is a
fusion of art and mathematics introducing stimulating ideas from
modern geometry, using illustrations from architecture and design.
The revolution in the teaching of mathematics and the advent of the
computer in design challenge traditional ways of appreciating the
space about us, and expand the ‘structural’ understanding of
our surroundings through such concepts as transformations, symmetry
groups, sets and graphs. This book aims to show the relevance of
‘new maths’ and encourages exploration of the widening
intellectual horizons of environmental design and architecture.
Leon Battista Alberti was an outstanding polymath of the fifteenth
century, alongside Piero della Francesca and before Leonardo da
Vinci. While his contributions to architecture and the visual arts
are well known and available in good English editions, and much of
his literary and social writings are also available in English, his
mathematical works are not well represented in readily available,
accessible English editions have remained accessible only to
specialists. The four treatises included here - Ludi matematici, De
Componendis Cifris, Elementi di pittura and De lunularum quadratura
- are extremely valuable in rounding out the portrait of this
multitalented thinker. The treatises are presented in modern
English translations, with commentary that is intended to make
evident the depths of Alberti's knowledge as well as address the
treatises' mathematical, historical and cultural context, their
classical Greek roots, and their relationship to later works by
Renaissance thinkers.
Leon Battista Alberti was an outstanding polymath of the
fifteenth century, alongside Piero della Francesca and before
Leonardo da Vinci. While his contributions to architecture and the
visual arts are well known and available in good English editions,
and much of his literary and social writings are also available in
English, his mathematical works are not well represented in readily
available, accessible English editions have remained accessible
only to specialists. The four treatises included here Ludi
matematici, De Componendis Cifris, Elementi di pittura and De
lunularum quadratura are extremely valuable in rounding out the
portrait of this multitalented thinker. The treatises are presented
in modern English translations, with commentary that is intended to
make evident the depths of Alberti s knowledge as well as address
the treatises mathematical, historical and cultural context, their
classical Greek roots, and their relationship to later works by
Renaissance thinkers."
Originally published in 1976, The Architecture of Form is a
collection of fourteen contributions by ten authors towards a
quantitative approach to architectural design. The volume opens
with an extended editorial introduction on the logic of design and
the question of value, which places the papers into a
decision-theoretic framework of descriptions, predictions and
evaluations, and these are taken as the headings of the three parts
of the volume. This book should be of wide interest to architects,
building scientists, systems designers, operational research
workers and computer scientists.
This is a digitally reprinted edition of Urban Space and
Structures, first published in 1972. This first volume in the
Cambridge Urban and Architectural Studies series is a compilation
outlining the growth of a particular line of research work which
was taking place at the Centre for Land Use and Built Form Studies
in Cambridge at the time. It attempted to understand some of the
factors which, at a theoretical level, condition the range of
choices that are available, whether in a building, the nodal point
in a city or the complete urban system.
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