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This paper analyses the presence of the Fibonacci numbers and the golden section within a characteristic project of one of the twentieth century’s leading architects: the Pastoor Van Ars church in The Hague designed by Aldo van Eyck. By means of a thorough analysis of the building based on field work and consultation of unpublished documents, it is possible to show that the compositional scheme of...
. To Renaissance mathematician Luca Pacioli, it was the Divine Proportion. To German astronomer Johannes Kepler, it was a precious jewel. The only proportion to increase simultaneously by geometric progression and by simple addition, the Golden Section achieves unity among diverse elements in remarkably efficient ways. We explore the Golden Ratio 1: ϕ , also known as the Golden Mean, and its appearance...
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