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Twentiethcentury architecture and planning professionals have adopted a design philosophy about geometrical shapes that can be viewed as dogmatic. A new vitruvius for 21stcentury architecture and urbanism. The symbolic message of euclidian geometry versus the visual dialogue of fractal geometry article pdf available december 2015 with 7,526. How modernist fundamentalism degrades the human and natural environment.
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