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Possibly the most famous essay about architecture and mathematics was written by Colin Rowe in 1947. Rowe’s essay, ‘The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa,’ compares formal and spatial properties in the architecture of Palladio and Le Corbusier .
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Ostwald, M.J., Dawes, M.J. (2018). Introduction. In: The Mathematics of the Modernist Villa. Mathematics and the Built Environment, vol 3. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71647-3_1
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