Article: Lines of inquiry: diagrams, in whatever visual form they take, represent a threshold moment in the creation of successful architecture, argues Alan Phillips.

'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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