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AN ANTHOLOGY OF STRUCTURAL MORPHOLOGY
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PREFACE
Which definition could be provided for the expression “Structural
Morphology”? This interrogation was the first one when Ture Wester,
Pieter Huybers, Jean François Gabriel and I decided to submit a
proposal of working group to the executive council of the International
Association for Shells and Spatial Structures. We were discussing about
topics of high interest for us, topics related to shapes, mechanical
behaviour, geometry of polyhedra and surfaces, design, bionics…We had
no clear answer to our first questio