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Geometry as a Key Component in the Education of a Skillful Designer
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- Title: Geometry as a Key Component in the Education of a Skillful Designer
- Author(s): Margo Kondratieva
- Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
- Collection: Common Ground Research Networks
- Series: Design Principles & Practices
- Journal Title: Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal—Annual Review
- Keywords: Mathematical Education, Visual Thinking, Spacial Imagination, Modelling and Graphic Representation
- Volume: 5
- Issue: 6
- Date: December 21, 2011
- ISSN: 1833-1874 (Print)
- ISSN: 2473-5736 (Online)
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18848/1833-1874/CGP/v05i06/38185
- Citation: Kondratieva, Margo. 2011. "Geometry as a Key Component in the Education of a Skillful Designer." Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal—Annual Review 5 (6): 337-350. doi:10.18848/1833-1874/CGP/v05i06/38185.
- Extent: 14 pages
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Abstract
Geometry has often been used, and its advance as a science stimulated, by architectural and artistic design. In this paper I discuss examples of enriching geometrical activities that could play a valuable role in the development of flexibility and precision of visual thinking, which is essential for education of a skillful designer.
