Richard Padovan

Richard Padovan (born 1935)[1] is an architect, author, translator and lecturer. In the 1950s he studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture;[1] he has practised architecture in several European countries, and taught at the University of Bath.[2] The Padovan sequence, a sequence of numbers with properties similar to the Fibonacci numbers, is named after him[3] despite the fact that in Padovan's 1994 essay Dom. Hans van der Laan : Modern Primitive he attributed the sequence to Hans van der Laan. Padovan is also the author of the books Proportion: science, philosophy, architecture (1999)[4][5] and Towards universality: Le Corbusier, Mies, and De Stijl (2002).[2][6]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Author biography from R. Padovan (2002), "Dom Hans Van Der Laan And The Plastic Number", Nexus IV: Architecture and Mathematics, pp. 181–193.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "The Influence of De Stijl", book review of Towards universality in Architectural Science Review, March 1, 2003.
  3. ↑ Stewart, Ian (2004), Math hysteria: fun and games with mathematics, Oxford University Press, p. 87, ISBN 978-0-19-861336-7.
  4. ↑ Taylor & Francis, ISBN 978-0-419-22780-9.
  5. ↑ Review in The Architects' Journal by Patrick Hodgkinson, February 3, 2000.
  6. ↑ Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-25962-0.