Nexus Network Journal
Volume 2 (2000)
June 2001 / Paper / ISSN 1590-5896 / ISBN 8879232509 / 232 pp./ printed on acid-free paper

Price : €20.00 Euro

With Special CD Supplement: "Modular Games" by Slavik Jablan €30.00 Euro


The Nexus Network Journal: Architecture and Mathematics volume 2 (2000) contains articles on architecture and mathematics that, like the Nexus conferences and the Nexus series of books, are interdisciplinary and multicultural. In addition to Research Articles, volume 2 of the NNJ includes The Geometer's Angle by Mark A. Reynolds, a new Didactics column, Book Reviews, Conference Reports and The Virtual Library.

CONTENTS
Kim Williams. Letter from the Editor

Viewpoint
Denes Nagy. Architecture and Mathematics: From an Odd Couple to a New Partnership

Special CD Supplement
Donald W. Crowe. Introduction to Slavik Jablan's "Modular Games"

Slavik Jablan. "Modular Games" (CD)

Research
Kazimierz Butelski. The Architecture of Curved Shapes

Paul A. Calter. How to Construct a Logarithmic Rosette (Without Even Knowing It)

Martin Euser. Pythagorean Triangles and Musical Proportions

Jay Kappraff. The Arithmetic of Nicomachus of Gerasa and its Applications to Systems of Proportion

Giangiacomo Martines. The Relationship Between Architecture and Mathematics in the Pantheon

Terry M. Mikiten, Nikos A. Salingaros, Hing-Sing Yu. Pavements as Embodiments of Meaning for a Fractal Mind

Michael Ostwald. Under Siege: The Golden Mean in Architecture

Helmut Sander. A Geometrical Ensemble to Generate the Squaring of the Circle

Kim Williams. Environmental Patterns: Paving Designs by Tess Jaray

Nancy Wu. Hugues Libergier and His Instruments

Nexus 2000 Round Table Discussion
Carol Martin Watts, Moderator. Methodology in Architecture and Mathematics

The Geometer's Angle
Mark A. Reynolds. Marriages of Incommensurables

Didactics
Liliana Curcio and Roberto di Martino. Experiences in a Model-Making Laboratory

Pierangela Rinaldi. The Renaissance, Geometry and Architecture

Michael Serra. A Term Project: Creating a Geometry Cathedral

Book Reviews
Abdul Karim Bangura. Ron Eglash, African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design

Alessandra Capanna. Willy Boesiger and Hans Girsberger, eds. Le Corbusier 1910-65

Alessandra Capanna. Manfredi Nicoletti, Sergio Musmeci. Organicità di forme e forze nello spazio

Jay Kappraff. Cecil Balmond, The Number 9: The Search for the Sigma Code

Mark Peterson. Lionel March, Architectonics of Humanism

Gert Sperling. Klaus Schröer and Klaus Irle, Ich aber quadriere den Kreis...

Stephen R. Wassell. Branko Mitrovic, trans. Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Canon of the Five Orders of Architecture

Kim Williams. Benno Artmann, Euclid. The Creation of Mathematics

Kim Williams. Robert Tavernor, On Alberti and the Art of Building

Kim Williams. Joachim Krausse and Claude Lichtenstein, eds., Your Private Sky. Buckminster Fuller

Conference Reports
Timothy Brown. Nexus 2000 Post Conference Workshop Tour

Yvonne Dold-Samplonius. 2000 Years Transmission of Mathematical Ideas

Holger Falter. International Association of Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS)

Orietta Pedemonte. Architecture and Mathematics: Analytic Methods, Geometric Methods and Representations in Architecture

Ivars Peterson. ISAMA 2000

Vera W. de Spinadel. 9th International Congress on Mathematics Education (ICME-9)

Kim Williams. Nexus 2000

The Virtual Library

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