D’Arcy Thompson talks about Mathematics and Form and how they interrelate. The study of form is analytical and its precision is relative. We tend to describe shapes, colors and all the visible aspects of a form. The mathematical definition of a form is very precise and efficient, that you are able to make a detailed [...]
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ON THE THEORY OF TRANSFORMATIONS, OR THE COMPARISION OF RELATED FORMS:
Posted: September 28, 2010 in Form, Formal Strategies, Reading 50
‘A priori is doubtless not even determined by what is called the mentality of the framework of thought of any given period’. The author describes nature and natural history as being spontaneous and never static, it does not follow certain rules and directions. Classification and speech have their spot in representation but on a certain [...]
The author explains the architectural typology, as it is useful for analyzing architecture and urban form. According to Quatremère de Quincy ‘type’ in architecture is “the idea of an element which should itself serve as a rule for the model”. For Guilio Carlose Argan “the type” is an abstraction and could not be set as [...]
