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Introduction: A Brief History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2025

Masoud Akbarzadeh
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Masoud Akbarzadeh
Masoud Akbarzadeh
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University of Pennsylvania
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Masoud Akbarzadeh is an Associate Professor of Architecture in Structures and Building Technologies and the Director of the Polyhedral Structures Laboratory. In 2020, he received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award for extending the methods of 3D/Polyhedral Graphic Statics for Education, Design, and Optimization of High-Performance Structures.

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2D graphic staticsMaxwell’s Reciprocal DiagramsPolyhedral Reciprocal Diagrams
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Polyhedral Graphical Statics
For Funicular Structural Form Finding
 , pp. 1 - 22
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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