Life and complexity in architecture from a thermodynamic analogy

Physics Essays

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 165-173

  Salingaros, Nikos A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Architecture; Design rules; Thenmodynamic model of structures

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031285667     PISSN: 08361398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4006/1.3028694     Document Type: Article

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