Title & Author:

Nexus : architecture and mathematics / edited by Kim Williams.

Publication:

Fucecchio (Firenze) : Edizioni dell'Erba, 1996.

Description:

205 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Collana "Gli studi" ; 2

Notes:
Can there be any relationships between mathematics and architecture? / Mario Salvadori -- The cloisters of Hauterive / Benno Artmann -- Façade measurement by trigonometry / Paul Calter -- Transformational geometry and the Central European Baroque Church / John Clagett -- Architecture and mathematics : soap bubbles and soap films / Michele Emmer -- Friedrich II and the love of geometry / Heinz Götze -- The universality of the symmetry concept / Istvàn Hargittai and Magdolna Hargittai -- Geometry of Vedic altars / George Gheverghese Joseph -- Musical proportions at the basis of systems of architectural proportion both ancient and modern / Jay Kappraff -- The symmetries of the baptistery and the Leaning Tower of Pisa / David Speiser -- The numberable architecture of Leon Battista Alberti as a universal sign of order and harmony / Livio Volpi Ghirardini -- The square and the Roman house : architecture and decoration at Pompeii and Herculaneum / Carol Martin Watts -- The praxis of Roman geometrical ordering in the design of a new American prairie house / Donald J. Watts -- Verocchio's tombslab for Cosimo de' Medici : designing with a mathematical vocabulary / Kim Williams.
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ISBN:

888688804X
9788886888042

Subject:

Architectural design.
Architecture Mathematics.
Design architectural.
Architecture Mathématiques.
Architecture et sciences.

Form/genre:

Conference publications.

Added entries:

Williams, Kim, 1956-
Collana "Gli studi" ; 2.

Architecture and mathematics

Holdings:

Location: Library main 134361
Call No.: NA2750.N48 1996
Status: Available