Relationships between architecture and mathematics

Abstract

I am greatly honoured to be asked to present a lecture at this congress on the theme of Mathematics and Architecture, because I happen to be a mathematician and because, although academically untrained in the difficult discipline of architecture, it has been my good luck to collaborate as a structural engineer in the creation of architectural buildings of all types and all over the world with architects like Gropius, Breuer, Saarinen and many others, during the 30 years I spent in a well known architectural engineering office in the United States.