Fractal Geometry in Architecture and Design by Carl Bovill - ISBN: 9780817637958
Hardcover
na broad sense Design Science is the grammar of a language of images Irather than of words. Modern communication techniques enable us to transmit and reconstitute images without needing to know a specific verbal sequence language such as the Morse code or Hungarian.

Fractal Geometry in Architecture and Design

  • Hardcover

    195 pages

  • Release Date

    28 March 1996

Summary

na broad sense Design Science is the grammar of a language of images Irather than of words. Modern communication techniques enable us to transmit and reconstitute images without needing to know a specific verbal sequence language such as the Morse code or Hungarian. International traffic signs use international image symbols which are not specific to any particular verbal language. An image language differs from a verbal one in that the latter uses a linear string of symbols, whereas the form…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780817637958
ISBN-10:0817637958
Author:Carl Bovill
Publisher:Birkhauser Boston Inc
Imprint:Birkhauser Boston Inc
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:195
Edition:1996th
Release Date:28 March 1996
Weight:1.38kg
Dimensions:254mm x 178mm
Series:Design Science Collection
About The Author

Carl Bovill

Carl Bovill is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland at College Park. He has taught at California State University in San Luis Obispo and at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He has received from the American Institute of Architects both an Education Honors Award, for technical systems integration in design instruction, and the AIA School Medal for excellence in the study of architecture.

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