Richard Padovan

Architect, Author

1935 –

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Who is Richard Padovan?

Richard Padovan is an architect, author, translator and lecturer. In the 1950s he studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture; he has practised architecture in several European countries, and taught at the University of Bath. The Padovan sequence, a sequence of numbers with properties similar to the Fibonacci numbers, is named after him despite the fact that in Padovan's 1994 essay Dom. Hans van der Laan : Modern Primitive he attributed the sequence to Hans van der Laan. Padovan is also the author of the books Proportion: science, philosophy, architecture and Towards universality: Le Corbusier, Mies, and De Stijl.

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Born
1935
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Education
  • Architectural Association School of Architecture

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on July 23, 2013

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