Out-of-print books
Conferenze e Seminari
dell'Associazione Subalpina Mathesis
2004-2005
a cura di L. Giacardi, M. Mosca, O. Robutti
Settembre 2005 / Paper / ISBN 88-88479-12-0 / 310 pp. /printed on acid-free paper / Italiano
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MATEMATICA ARTE E TECNICA NELLA STORIA
in memoria di Tullio Viola
a cura di Livia Giacardi e Clara Silvia Roero
January 2007 / Paper / ISBN 978-88-88479-17-1 / pp. 336 /printed on acid-free paper / Italiano
Prezzo speciale fino ad esaurimento: €15,75 spedizione inclusa (in Italia).
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Nexus III: Architecture and Mathematics
Kim Williams, ed.
June 2000 / Paper / ISBN 88-77813-04-0 / 184 pp. printed on acid-free paper
Price : €30.00 Euro - Out of stock / esaurito
This third book in the Nexus series offers papers that further broaden the horizons of studies in architecture and mathematics. One kind of analysis offered here, the geometrical analysis of an existing architectural monument, is treated in a different light, that is, with as much of an emphasis on methodology as on the particular results. These geometric approaches illustrate the usefulness of a rigorous mathematical approach to the study of architecture. A different kind of approach is offered by the examination of contemporary architecture through linear algebra. Nexus III: Architecture and Mathematics also includes discussions of the architecture of non-European cultures: Arabic, Inkan and Ottoman. Other contributions consider the symbolic value of perspective in painted representations of architecture, proportions in the architecture of Palladio and Wright, the issue of shape in the architecture of Le Corbusier.
Released in June 2002
Nexus IV: Architecture and Mathematics
José Francisco Rodrigues and Kim Williams, eds.
June 2002 / Paper / ISBN 88-88479-09-0 / 270 pp./ ill. 140 bw / printed on acid-free paper
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This fourth book in the Nexus series offers papers that further broaden the horizons of studies in architecture and mathematics. Over the years, Nexus has truly shown itself to have created a just that: a nexus between disciplines, between "languages", between cultures. This new collection of papers carries on the splendid interdisciplinary variety that has characterized the previous three volumes: architects, historians, theoreticians, mathematicians and scientists from Australia, Canada, China, France, Italy, Portugal, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States, present papers on subjects as diverse as shape grammars, amphitheaters, neo-Platonism, Stonehenge, scientific rationalism, Vastu geometry, cubic equations and systems of proportion. Western architecture of almost every period is examined: Egyptian, Roman, medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Enlightenment, twentieth-century, as is the architecture of China, India and Islam. Containing such diversity in a single volume is quite a feat; that is, it is a volume as rich as the Nexus conferences themselves.