The magic numbers

By and David Littlefield David Littlefield David Littlefield2006-07-14T00:00:00

It’s not just the golden section — architects often use complex mathematical sequences as inspiration for their designs. David Littlefield reports on the latest schemes to find their forms from numbers

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