Richard Padovan is an architect

Architect

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, author

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, translator and lecturer

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. In the 1950s he studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture

Architectural Association School of Architecture

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; he has practised architecture in several European countries, and taught at the University of Bath

University of Bath

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. The Padovan sequence

Padovan sequence

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, a sequence of numbers with properties similar to the Fibonacci number

Fibonacci number

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s, is named after him despite the fact that in Padovan's 1994 essay Dom. Hans van der Laan : Modern Primitive he attributed the sequence to Hans van der Laan. Padovan is also the author of the books Proportion: science, philosophy, architecture (1999) and Towards universality: Le Corbusier, Mies, and De Stijl (2002).