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Why are most buildings rectangular?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2007

Philip Steadman
Affiliation:
Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, 1–19 Torrington Place, University College London, London WC1E6BT UKj.p.steadman@ucl.ac.uk

Abstract

The constraints of packing rooms together, and the flexibility of dimensioning allowed by rectangular arrangements, explain the predominance of the right angle in architectural plans.

Type
theory
Copyright
2006 Cambridge University Press

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