About the author

Philip Steadman is Professor of Urban and Built Form Studies at University College London. He trained as an architect, and has taught at the University of Cambridge and the Open University. He has published several books on geometry in architecture and computer-aided design. In the 1960s he co-edited and published Form, an international magazine of the arts, and co-authored a book on kinetic art. He helped to produce four computer-animated films on the work of Leonardo da Vinci for an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London in 1989. He has also contributed to other exhibitions, films and books on perspective geometry and the history of art. Vermeer’s Camera is the product of twenty years’ fascination with the Dutch painter.