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From systems of proportion used by Vitruvius to the first sectional drawings in the Renaissance, from the influence of physiognomic studies in the French Academy to the recent appropriations of genetics and informations systems, 'science' has long been a source of architectural theory and composition. The ways in which science is 'added' to architecture varies from the literal to the metaphorical, providing legitimation for both its technological and symbolic aspects. Papers in this session explore the ways in which science is added to, or indeed subtracted from, architecture, providing inspiration for its construction, operation, composition, appearance, or meaning.

Architecture + Science and Mathematics, Scott Drake, (Introductory Essay)

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Mark Burry, Jane Burry & Grant Dunlop
Sharing Thoughts, Reflection as Architectural Design, How We Reflect Together

Steven Fleming
Louis Kahn’s Situated Platonism

Michael P. T. Linzey
Cleanthes’s theory of design

Desley Luscombe
Sebastiano Serlio’s Symbolic Perspective

Harry Margalit
Architecture and Progress

Peter Raisbeck
Marine and Underwater Cities 1960-1975

Alex Selenitsch
Temple plus: Looking at Palladio's Villas, Again

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