Why are Most buildings Rectangular?: And other Essays on Geometry and architecture

This booklet brings collectively a dozen of Philip Steadman's essays and papers on the geometry of architectural and urban form, written over the closing 12 years. New introductions hyperlink the papers and set them in context. There are two large topics: a morphological strategy to the heritage of structure, and experiences of probability in constructed form. within this framework the papers cover the geometrical personality of the constructing inventory as a whole; histories of selected constructing varieties; analyses of density and power in the case of city kind; and systematic methods for enumerating constructing plans and constructed kinds. They contact on a variety of key subject matters of debate in architectural theory and building science. Illustrated with over 200 black and white photographs, this collection offers an attainable and coherent book to this vital work.