Nexus Network Journal 10,2: Architecture and MathematicsKim Williams This volume features a collection of papers dedicated to "Canons of Form-Making", in honor of the 500th anniversary of the birth of architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580). Theorist as well as practitioner, Palladio's architecture was based on well-defined canons that he had gleaned from studying the treatises as well as the remains of architecture from antiquity. Palladio himself left to posterity not only his large corpus of built works, but his Quattro libri d'architettura. Three of the papers in this issue are specifically about Palladio and his work. The other papers deal with canons of form-making, ancient and contemporary. |
Contents
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LIONEL MARCH Palladio Pythagoreanism and Renaissance Mathematics | 227 |
BUTHAYNA EILOUTI A Formal Language for Palladian Palazzo Façades | 244 |
TOMÁS GARCÍASALGADO A Perspective Analysis of the Proportions of the Villa | 269 |
CARL BOVILL The Doric Order as a Fractal | 283 |
A Dynamic Interpretation of | 290 |
ROBERTO B F CASTIGLIA MARCO GIORGIO BEVILACQUA The Turkish Baths | 307 |
ANAT DAVIDARTMAN Mathematics as the Vital Force of Architecture | 323 |
Didactics | 331 |
Geometers Angle | 343 |
Book Reviews | 375 |
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