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Symmetry: Culture and Science
Volume 30, Number 4, pages 265-273 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.26830/symmetry_2019_4_265

SHAPING – AND SHAPED BY – INFINITY: THE IMPORTANCE OF HUNCHES

Peter Magyar

Address: College of Architecture, Planning and Design, Kansas State University, 2097 Seaton Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506, U.S.A.
E-mail: pmagyar@k-state.edu

Abstract: This study and research proposal includes two discreet areas. The first proposes to view a generally applied activity, architectural design, from a completely new angle. We will accomplish this objective by focusing on that rather neglected element, the surface, and subjecting it to a topological transformation, through which one could also quantitatively analyze space and our built environment. The second aspect belongs more to the hunches and observations, and investigates the probability of the hoped-for outcomes, while looking for methods and directions for the extension of the accepted capacity of architecture.

Keywords: contemporary architecture, architectural theory, drawing, surface, continuity of surface, topology

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