About 6 months ago I received a comment on one of my photos on Flickr asking for permission to include it in an academic textbook by the Bentley Institute Press entitled “Architectural Geometry“. The picture (see below) is of one of the spiral staircases at Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire. I agreed to its use and should shortly be receiving my complimentary copy of the publication – I’ll post photos when it arrives.
These days we are facing dramatic changes, the tools at our disposal becoming seemingly unlimited. However, the increase in possibilities did not go along with an increase in the depth of geometry education. In fact, the opposite is true. Thus, it is the most important task of this book to close the gap between the technical possibilities and an effective working knowledge of the new methods of geometric design.