Mathematical Thinking and Properties in Architecture

Ju Hyun Lee is Associate Professor of Architecture and Computational Design at UNSW, Sydney (Australia). He is co-author with Michael J. Ostwald of Grammatical and Syntactical Approaches in Architecture (IGI Global 2020), co-author with Michael J. Ostwald and Ning Gu of Design Thinking: Creativity, Collaboration and Culture (Springer 2020) and co-editor with Michael J. Ostwald and Mi Jeong Kim of Multimodality in Architecture: Collaboration, Technology and Education (Springer 2024).

Michael J. Dawes is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at UNSW, Sydney. He completed his PhD in architecture at the University of Newcastle, where he investigated design theory and mathematics in the work of Christopher Alexander. He is a co-author with Michael J. Ostwald of The Mathematics of the Modernist Villa (Birkhäuser 2018).

Michael J. Ostwald is Scientia Professor of Architectural Analytics at UNSW, Sydney (Australia) and Editor-in-Chief of the Nexus Network Journal: Architecture and Mathematics (Springer Nature). Some of his recent books include The Fractal Dimension of Architecture (Birkhäuser 2016) with Josephine Vaughan, The Mathematics of the Modernist Villa (Birkhäuser 2018) with Michael J. Dawes, Grammatical and Syntactical Approaches in Architecture (IGI Global 2020) with Ju Hyun Lee, and Computational Design (CRC, Taylor and Francis 2021) with Ning Gu and Rongrong Yu.