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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
Kim Williams. Preface
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
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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