The constant Book

The book is a dialogue between an architect and a mathematician taking place over a period of seven days and presenting examples of architectural system-forms that originate in many scientific fields as well as mathematical abstractions that are translated into flowing three-dimensional forms leading to new conceptions of structure and space. The book is directed to the young, to students and educators longing for change, to historians of art and architecture who want to challenge long standing myths and precedents; to planners who want to conceive a new urban environment since no change is valid while it preserves the unimaginative and obsolete structures of the past, to architects in order to narrow the increasing gap between art, science and technology by means of a new science, the Science of Systems and to the general reader who is interested in architecture and can see it here in a unique literary context. The constant reduces 5000 years of architecture to a single concept and to three buildings that have introduced fundamental innovation into the art. It simplifies architecture into a universal concept called Generic Architecture whose bare bones are inclusive, long lasting, adaptable to change and so flexible as to encompass all building types.