Main entry:

Nexus (Conference) (4th : 2002 : Obidos, Portugal)

Title & Author:

Nexus IV : architecture and mathematics / edited by José Frabcusci Rodrigues and Kim Williams.

Publication:

Fucecchio, Italy : Kim Williams Books, ©2002.

Description:

268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
"The papers published here were presented at the fourth international, interdisciplinary conference 'Nexus 2002: Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics' ... from 15-18 June 2002 in Obidos, Portugal."
"Centro de Matemática e Aplicac̦ões Fundamentais, University of Lisbon."
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / Jose Francisco Rodrigues, Kim Williams -- Mathematics and architecture since 1960 / Lionel March -- Architecture as verb and the ethics of making / Alberto Pérez-Gómez -- Measure, metre, irony: reuniting pure mathematics with architecture / Robert Tavernor -- Structural stability and the mathematics of motion in medieval architecture / Marie-Thérèse Zenner -- Architecture and mathematics in Roman amphitheaters / Sylvie Duvernoy -- Louis Kahn's platonic approach to number and geometry / Steven Fleming -- Coelum Britannicum: inigo Jones and symbolic geometry / Rumiko Handa -- Science behind Francesco Borromini's divine geometry / John G. Hatch -- Algorithmic architecture in twelfth-century China: the Yingzao Fashi / Andrew I-Kang Li -- Vastu geometry: beyond building codes / Vini Nathan -- Use of cubic equations in Islamic art and architecture / Alpay Özdural -- Dom Hans Van der Laan and the plastic number / Richard Padovan -- From cosmic city to esoteric cinema: Pythagorean mathematics and design in Australia / Graham Pont, Peter Proudfoot -- Old shoes, new feet, and the puzzle of the first square in ancient Egyptian architecture / Peter Schneider -- Perspective before perspective: the spaces of medieval architecture / Anthony Scibilia -- Practical and theoretical applications of geometry at Claude Perrault's Observatoire de Paris (1667-1672) -- Antonio Rodrigues, a Portuguese architect with a scientific inclination / João Pedro Xavier.
Also issued online.

ISBN:

8888479090
9788888479095

Subject:

Architectural design Congresses.
Architecture Mathematics Congresses.
Design architectural Congrès.
Architectural design
Architecture Mathematics
ARCHITETTURA E MATEMATICA

Form/genre:

Proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings

Added entries:

Williams, Kim, 1956-
Rodrigues, José-Francisco.
Universidade de Lisboa. Centro de Matemática e Aplicac̦ões Fundamentais.

Nexus 4
Nexus Four

Holdings:

Location: Library main 225435
Call No.: NA2543.M38 N4 2002
Status: Available