Author Archives: Maria Alexandra Polyakova

(Bassil Taleb, Sequential Transformation) D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson   ”On the Theory of Transformations” (“On Growth and Form” , 1917) D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson wrote his book in the beginning  of XX century, in 1917. He was one of the first scientists that explored the connection, and tried to blur the boundaries between biology and mathematics. Large part of “On [...]

In the chapter «The Conditioned Outdoor Room» extracted from the writing «Behind The Picture Window» Bernard Rudofsky provides a survey about the position of outdoor space in people’s life. Rudofsky starts his analysis describing that the comfort of human beings nowadays has been changed in contrast with the history. Thanks to social, economical and technologycal [...]