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Building Types and Built Forms
Building Types and Built Forms weaves two books together in alternating chapters: one about the history of building types, the other about their geometry. The first book follows …
Daniele Barbaro’s Perspective of 1568
A year after the second edition of his famous translation and commentary on Vitruvius, Daniele Barbaro published The Practice of Perspective, a text he had begun working on many …
The Geometry of Environment
Originally published in 1971 The Geometry of Environment is a fusion of art and mathematics introducing stimulating ideas from modern geometry, using illustrations from …
The Evolution of Designs
Tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings. This book lays out these …
Renaissance Fun
Why are Most Buildings Rectangular?
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 …
American Cities and Technology
Designed to be used on its own or as a companion volume to the American Cities and Technology textbook. Chronologically, this volume ranges from the earliest technological …