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Article: Lines of inquiry: diagrams, in whatever visual form they take, represent a threshold moment in the creation of successful architecture, argues Alan Phillips.
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- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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'First I think, then I draw my think.'
Amanda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947)
It is very difficult to think of complex things being expressed in simple terms without the use of diagrams. As an example we could take the nineteenth-century mathematician and philosopher John Venn, who introduced the Venn Diagram in 1881. Although starting its life as a means of organising mathematical sets and logical relationships (and similar to the diagrams of Johnston and Euler which were applied to truth values and propositional logic), the Venn Diagram remains famous in using two or more overlapping circles to examine the similarities and differences in language arts ...
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Article: Diagramming differences: comparing the United States and ...
Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication;
October 1, 2007 ;
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... ... good way of showing similarities and differences. The Venn diagram below represents the United States and China with overlapping ... and outside sources to help you complete the diagram. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A. one of the world's five largest countries in area ...
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