The experience of teaching mathematics in schools of architecture can help us to travel cultural byways that bridge the gap that separates the humanistic and scientific cultures in a good part of the academic world and that of research.

Contents

Orietta Pedemonte and Laura Tedeschini Lalli. Letter from the Guest Editors

Research

Julie Cowan. The archKIDecture Build IT! Exhibit Project

Mari Alati, Liliana Curcio, Roberto Di Martino, Lino Gerosa, Cinzia Tresoldi. From Natural Forms to Models

Francisco Javier Delgado Cepeda. Designing a Problem-Based Learning Course of Mathematics for Architects

Linda Keane and Mark Keane. The Geometry of Frank Lloyd Wright

Elena Marchetti and Luisa Rossi Costa. Reconstruction of Forms through Linear Algebra

Hernán Nottoli. Methods for Evaluation in Mathematics for Architecture and Design

Graham Pont. The Education of the Classical Architect from Plato to Vitruvius

J.M. Rees. Teaching Geometry to Artists: Report on an Experiment in Progress

Nicola Luigi Rizzi and Valerio Varano. Leo: a Multimedia Tale of Structural Mechanics

Emil Saucan. Euler's Theorem as the Path towards Geometry

Arzu Gönenç Sorguç. Teaching Mathematics in Architecture

Interview

Anne Tyng. Interview by Robert Kirkbride. Number is Form and Form is Number

The Geometer's Angle

Rachel Fletcher. SIX + ONE

Book Reviews

Sylvie Duvernoy. Architecture's New Media: Principles, Theories, and Methods of Computer-Aided Design by Yehuda E. Kalay

Kim Williams. Learning from Palladio by Branko Mitrovic

João Pedro Xavier. The Cambridge Companion to Piero della Francesca by Jeryldene M. Wood, ed.