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This book is about the analysis of architecture using fractal dimensions. This method and its application are described in detail in the coming chapters, but it must also be acknowledged that the relationship between fractals and architecture has traditionally been both more diverse and more controversial than the scope of this book might imply. For thirty years architectural scholars and designers have opportunistically appropriated images and ideas from fractal geometry along with concepts broadly related to fractal dimensions and non-linear dynamics, and used them for a wide variety of purposes.
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Ostwald, M.J., Vaughan, J. (2016). Fractals in Architectural Design and Critique. In: The Fractal Dimension of Architecture. Mathematics and the Built Environment, vol 1. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32426-5_2
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