The creation of beauty is a defining purpose of architecture, inextricably linked with the third of Vitruvius's conditions for design which is often translated as'delight'. Creating beauty is both one of the fundamental objectives of design and one of the ultimate tests of its success. But concepts of beauty soon start to become elusive. Can beauty be defined, and is there any need to do so? Can the central characteristics of beauty be isolated and explained through pure mathematical analysis?
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