Lionel March

Emeritus Professor of Design and Computation, School of Architecture and the Arts, and member of the Center of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA. Former Rector and Vice-Provost, Royal College of Art, London. Professor of Systems Design, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario. Professor of Design, The Open University. Founding Director, The Martin Centre for Architecture and Urban Studies (LUBFS), University of Cambridge. Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund, Joint Center for Urban Studies, MIT and Harvard University. ScD, MA, Diploma in Architecture, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge.
Publications include: The Geometry of Environment, Urban Space and Structures, Architecture of Form, Architectonics of Humanism. Recent contributions include the Forwards to Silvio Belli: Ratio and Proportion, Shape Grammars, Formal Engineering Design Synthesis. Recent papers include ‘Architectonics of proportion: a shape grammatical depiction of classical theory’, ‘Renaissance mathematics and architectural proportion in Alberti’s De re aedificatoria’, ‘Palladio, Pythagoreanism, and renaissance mathematics’.