Shapes and structures are examined as fundamental design relationships, particularly in architecture and product design. The authors from various disciplines examine the role that geometry plays in the processes of form creation. Traditionally, geometry has the task of making forms comprehensible, representable and realizable and of investigating their rules of creation. Current developments show the use of increasingly complex, irregular and seemingly "non-geometric" shapes. In addition to geometric and topological considerations, the designs are based on system-theoretical considerations and processes of morphogenesis. The authors address the relationships between form, structure and materiality and thus oppose current tendencies towards arbitrariness in design. Engineering and artistic-aesthetic design approaches are brought together. The importance of mathematical-structural and geometric thinking in these complex contexts is highlighted both in a historical context and in computer-based work processes in realized examples from practice.

The book contains contributions by Gert Bär, Josef Baulig, Wolfgang Brune, Tadeusz E. Dorozinski, Ekkehard Drach, Hermann Edel, Uta Graff, Uli Herres, Markus Holzbach, Manuela Irlwek, Sven Kuhrau, Cornelie Leopold, Daniel Lordick, Achim Menges, Luc Merx, Oliver Niewiadomski, Kai Otto, Norbert Palz, Norbert Reimann, Gabi Schillig, Holmer Schleyerbach, Milena Stavric, Ragunath Vasudevan, Georg Vrachliotis, Gunter Weiss, Albert Wiltsche, Ueli Wittorf and a summary of the panel discussion on the role of geometry in design. for design. It documents the 9th conference of the German Society for Geometry and Graphics (DGfGG) (http://www.dgfgg.de), which took place from March 6 to 8, 2013 in the architecture department of the TU Kaiserslautern.

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