If you ever thought about being an architect but thought you couldn’t handle the math, you aren’t alone. At parties across the land, as soon as someone finds out there is an architect in the crowd, ...

The Science Museum in London has today opened a new gallery dedicated to mathematics. Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), Mathematics: The Winton Gallery will shed light on the importance of math ...

‘Compass & Rule’ Explores How Math Changed Architecture From medieval masons’ drawings on stone to precisely delineated 18th-century draftsmen’s drawings, the objects on view in the next exhibition at ...

In the beauty and geometric complexity of tile mosaics on walls of medieval Islamic buildings, scientists have recognized patterns suggesting that the designers had made a conceptual breakthrough in ...

The golden ratio is obtained by looking for a particular rectangle. Let us imagine a rectangle of length b and width a. Inside this rectangle, we draw a square (an x a). We are left with a rectangle ...

The Rubik's cube was invented in 1974 by Hungarian civil engineer and architect Ernő Rubik. Since then, it has fascinated millions of people worldwide. On 15 November 2024, ETH Zurich (D-MATH, D-ARCH, ...

Two professors and one Princeton graduate alumnus are among the 11 winners of this year's prestigious Wolf Prizes. Bestowed by the Wolf Foundation in Israel since 1978, the Wolf Prize is awarded to ...

Introduction: Encoded Architectures -- A Machine Epistemology: Encapsulated Knowledge and the Instrumentation of Architecture -- Theorems Made Flesh: The Architectonics of Mathematical Maquettes -- ...

This week London's Science Museum will open The Winton Gallery, a new space dedicated to the study and exploration of mathematics, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. While this is the practice's first ...