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Why are Most Buildings Rectangular?: And Other Essays on Geometry and Architecture

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This book brings together a dozen of Philip Steadman's essays and papers on the geometry of architectural and urban form, written over the last 12 years. New introductions link the papers and set them in context. There are two large themes: a morphological approach to the history of architecture, and studies of possibility in built form. Within this framework the papers cover the geometrical character of the building stock as a whole; histories of selected building types; analyses of density and energy in relation to urban ...

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Why are Most Buildings Rectangular?: And Other Essays on Geometry and Architecture 2017, Routledge, London

ISBN-13: 9781138226555

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Why are Most Buildings Rectangular?: And Other Essays on Geometry and Architecture 2017, Routledge, London

ISBN-13: 9781138226548

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