%0 Journal Article %J Nexus Network Journal %D 1999 %T Architecture, Patterns, and Mathematics %A Nikos Angelos Salingaros %X

Abstract. Nikos Salingaros posits the importance of architectural pattern in man's intellectual development, examining how twentieth century architectural attitudes towards decoration and pattern have impoverished man's experience of both mathematics and the built environment.

Editor's note. As this paper, originally published in the NNJ vol. 1 no. 2 (April 1999) has become widely read and referred to on the Internet, we have decided to republish an updated version of it, included new Internet links. It is also now available in print in the Nexus Network Journal vol. 1 (1999). Click here to order this book directly from the NNJ.

%B Nexus Network Journal %S ATOA %V 1-2 %8 04/1999 %@ 3-937954-07-4 %G eng %U http://emis.matem.unam.mx/journals/NNJ/Salingaros.html %( NNJ vol. 1 no. 2 (April 1999) %) "Chapter 6. Architecture, Patterns, and Mathematics." In A Theory of Architecture. ATOA. Solingen, Germany: Umbau-Verlag, 2006.