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  title info:
    title: Why are most buildings rectangular?
    sub title: and other essays on geometry and architecture
  title info:
    title: Works. Selections
  name:
    name part: Steadman, Philip
    name part: 1942-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 270 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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 twelve 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 form and systematic methods for enumerating building plans and built forms. They touch on a range of key topics of debate in architectural theory and building science. Illustrated with over 200 black and white images, this collection provides an accessible and coherent guide to this important work.
  table of contents: Plan geometry, rectangular and circular -- The geometry and 'evolution' of building types -- Built form and urban form : geometry, energy and density -- Theoretical approaches to possibility in built form.
  note: Philip Steadman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Architecture
    topic: Composition, proportion, etc
  subject:
    topic: Geometry in architecture
  classification: NA2760 .S758 2018
  classification: 720.2
  identifier: 9781138226548
  identifier: 1138226548
  identifier: 9781138226555
  identifier: 1138226556
  identifier: 2017006822
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170223
    record change date: 20180430074256.0
    record identifier: in00003925691