This paper is the first investigation of the fractal dimensions of five of the house designs of Eileen Gray: a prominent architect working mainly in France between 1922 and and 1956. In this paper, a computational variation of the "box-counting approach" (used to determine fractal dimension) is applied to a multi-dimensional review of the houses of Gray. As a contemporary of Le Corbusier, Gray is a significant architect for such an analysis. This research is important because it expands the set of examples of early twentieth century architects who have been analyzed using the method. This paper provides a computer-assisted mathematical analysis of characteristic visual complexity in five houses designs by Eileen Gray.
History
Source title
Silicon + Skin: Biological Processes and Computation: Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture
Name of conference
28th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA '08)
Location
Minneapolis, MN
Start date
2008-10-16
End date
2008-10-19
Pagination
256-263
Editors
Kudless, A., Oxman, N. & Swackhamer,M.
Publisher
Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA)