Forthcoming in June 2008!
Nexus VII: Architecture and Mathematics
Kim Williams, ed.
June 2008 / Paper / ISBN 978-88-88479-... /ca. 200 pp. printed on acid-free paper /

Price : €35.00 Euro

This seventh book in the Nexus: Architecture and Mathematics conference series features 20 papers dealing with seven broad topics: Design theory, history, surveys, astronomy, representation, non-Western architecture and mathematics, and design analysis. Contributors from Portugal, Italy, the United States, Australia, Ireland, Denmark, Iran, Mexico and India present a lively and varied portrait of relationships between architecture and mathematics from the ancient to the actual.

Contents

Luisa Consiglieri and Victor Consiglieri. Continuity versus discretization

Celestina Cotti and Michela Rossi. Geometries of imaginary space: Architectonic developments in the research of M. C. Escher and Buckminster Fuller

Andrzej Zarzycki. Formal Mutations: Designing a Transformative Experience

Tessa Morrison. Villalpando's Sacred Architecture in Light of Isaac Newton's Commentary

João Pedro Xavier. The Book of Perspective of António Rodrigues's Architectural Treatise from 1576

Avril Behan and Rachel Moss. Geometry, Metrology & Proportion in the Ecclesiastical Architecture of Medieval Ireland

Maurice Murphy, Sara Pavia, Eugene Mc Govern. Correlation of laser-scan surveys of Irish classical architecture with historic documentation from architectural pattern books

Niels Bandholm. The Celestial Key: Heaven Projected on Earth

Maria Zack. Robert Hooke's Fire Monument: Architecture as a Scientific Instrument

Jafar Taheri. Mathematical Knowledge of Architecture in the Works of Kâshânî

Kristina Luce. Raphael and the Pantheon's Interior: a Pivotal Moment in Architectural Representation

Ning Gu. A Grammar for Dynamic and Autonomous Design in 3D Virtual Environments

Alfonso Ramírez Ponce. Poetry, Music and Architecture

Vinay Mohan Das and Yogesh K Garg. Coding and generating complex intercolumniation grid patterns for pavilions described in traditional Indian architecture treatise

Peter W. Saltzman. Quasi-Periodicity in Islamic Ornamental Design

Steven Fleming and Mark Reynolds. An Historio-Geometrical Analysis of The Salk and its Unbuilt Gardens, Introducing a Method for Testing Intentions

Michael Ostwald. The Fractal Analysis of 20th Century Architecture: The House Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier

Michael R. Ytterberg. Alberti's Sant' Andrea and the Etruscan Proportion

John Poros. The Ruled Geometries of Marcel Breuer

 
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