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Knowledge of the geometry of curves assumed and still today assumes a leading role in the design of shape. The arts and applied sciences use this theory for the construction of products that require a certain level of geometric accuracy. In general terms, we can affirm that the quality of the surfaces composing an architectural or designed shape

Introduzione al volume Le linee curve per l'architettura e il design

Il volume raccoglie studi che indagano sul ruolo delle linee quale matrice formale dell’architettura e del design. Considerando la geometria al centro sia del processo creativo della progettazione che della concretizzazione della forma nella costruzione vera e propria, lo studio della geometria solida delinea un settore di ricerca attualmente emergente al confine tra geometria applicata e architettura, specie in un momento in cui l’analisi e la produzione si manifestano attraverso forme sempre più complesse.

The history of the geometric thought evolution derives only in small part from direct written sources. A lot of news has come down to us for successive transcriptions, often reworked, or for random discoveries of autograph texts whose existence was unknown.
Many recent studies have shown that in the pre-Hellenistic period the knowledge of geometry was certainly greater than imagined until a few decades ago. Geometry was one of the main components of a multidisciplinary knowledge that also included arithmetic, music and astronomy, as well as grammar, rhetoric and dialectics.