Math walk stops from a math tour of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
As we’ve seen in other posts, the elegant architecture of the Southern Methodist University campus is a rich source for seeing mathematical concepts in action. One technique that architects use to unify the design of a building is to have a repeated feature or shape that recurs in multiple circumstances in the building (much as […]
The study in symmetry continues inside the Hughes-Trigg Student Center, this time providing an excellent illustration of another important type, rotational symmetry. Check out the central gallery of the building. If you stand in the center of the room (right on top of the ubiquitous stallion), pick any direction and memorize what you see, and […]
Many mathematical concepts are important in architecture, and a particularly important one is symmetry. Rarely will you see a building so carefully displaying mirror symmetry as the lovely, neo-Classical Hughes-Trigg Student Center on the campus of Southern Methodist University. If you imagine a vertical line running from the highest point of the building straight down […]