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Nexus IV: architecture and mathematics / edited by Kim Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Collana "Gli studi" ; 2.
- Collana "Gli studi" ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architectural design.
- Architecture--Mathematics.
- Architecture.
- Physical Description:
- 205 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Architecture and mathematics
- Place of Publication:
- Fucecchio (Firenze) : Edizioni dell'Erba, 1996.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 888688804X :
- OCLC:
- 35697769
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