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020			_a9783319324241
041			_aeng
082			_a720.51 _bOST-F
100			_aOstwald, Michael J. _910140
245			_aFractal dimension of architecture _cMichael J. Ostwald
260			_aSwitzerland _bSpringer/Birkhauser _c2016
300			_axvii, 423p.
490			_aMathematics and the built environment-1
520			_aFractal analysis is a method for measuring, analysing and comparing the formal or geometric properties of complex objects. In this book it is used to investigate eighty-five buildings that have been designed by some of the twentieth-century most respected and celebrated architects. This book presents the results of the largest mathematical study ever undertaken into architectural design and the largest single application of fractal analysis presented in any field. The data derived from this study is used to test three overarching hypotheses about social, stylistic and personal trends in design, along with five celebrated arguments about twentieth-century architecture.
650			_aAR _910156
690			_aArchitecture-Mathematics _aFractal-Dimension _910157
700			_aVaughan, Josephine _910143
942			_cBK
999			_c8856 _d8856