Using game theory to fine-tune architectural diplomacy

2016-08-25T09:31:00-04:00

When you think of game theory, you might imagine numbers scrawled with a wax pencil on a pane of glass by a troubled genius—calculations extrapolating order out of the apparent chaos of human activity. After all, that’s pretty much how it goes in A Beautiful Mind, the biopic of the mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr., a major contributor to the field. But game theory isn’t just the domain of high-minded academics; it has very real and practical applications, including for architectural design. I talked with the London-based firm Mzo Tarr about their use of game theory in “every aspect of the design process”.

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Using game theory to fine-tune architectural diplomacy