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Author(s) -
McLean Will
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1280
Subject(s) - heading (navigation) , certainty , architecture , range (aeronautics) , management , sociology , law , engineering , computer science , mathematics education , mathematics , visual arts , art , political science , epistemology , philosophy , economics , aerospace engineering
Is architecture heading for a ‘procedural mathematic cul‐de‐sac’? Are architects just too ready to settle for the ‘well‐defined certainty of parametricism’, having got stuck on a mathematics of pattern? Will McLean , Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster, urges designers to open themselves up to the wider delights of mathematics and the full range of possibilities that the discipline has to offer. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.