Mathematics in, of and for Architecture: A Framework of Types

Michael J. Ostwald () and Kim Williams ()
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Michael J. Ostwald: University of Newcastle, School of Architecture and Built Environment
Kim Williams: Kim Williams Books

Chapter Chapter 3 in Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future, 2015, pp 31-57 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A majority of the many different types of applications of mathematics in architecture are present, in some rudimentary way at least, in even the earliest myths of this discipline. The more extensive set of application types in use today shares a clear lineage to these ancestral cases. The specific formulas used by architects and engineers may have changed, and, amongst other things, their capacity to work with non-orthogonal geometries has also improved, but the fundamental purpose of the application of mathematics in architecture has endured throughout history. The purpose of the present chapter is to examine and to begin to identify the different ways in which mathematics is used in architecture.

Keywords: Space Syntax; Greek Mythology; Dancing Floor; Design Process Model; Recursive Loop (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-00137-1_3

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