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Call for Papers
Nexus 2010
Relationships Between Architecture and
Mathematics
13-15 June 2010, Porto, Portugal
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Moderator |
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Lionel March (UK) |
Shape and Shape Grammars |
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José Calvo-López (Spain) |
From Mediaeval Stonecutting to Projective Geometry:
Formal, Social and Epistemological Shifts |
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Gonçalo Furtado (Portugal) |
Architecture, Systems Research and Computational
Sciences |
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Chris Beorkrem (USA) |
Guerrilla Tactics of Digital Design |
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Kim Williams (Italy) |
Miscellaneous (for papers that do not fall into
one of the above categories) |
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Moderator |
Round Table |
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Celestino Soddu (Italy) |
Generative Architecture codeness |
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Alberto Sdegno (Italy) |
The Geometric Construction of Morphology |
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Deadline for submissions
of abstracts: 1 August 2009 |
Could one mystery be the answer to another mystery?
Valerie Brewster Willis had a
query in the Nexus Network Journal 03 Feb 2006: What
is this geometrical symbol in Roncesvalles? (See figure 1)
Fig. 1
I do not have an answer but I
see a similarity to a pattern I found in Keith Critchlow's book,
Islamic Patterns (1976) on page 39 (see fig. 2). This
figure also contains a six-pointed star and it is gyrated an
angle of 19.11° from its normal position. Read
more...
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Nexus
VII: Architecture and Mathematics
Kim Williams, ed.
This seventh book in the Nexus: Architecture and Mathematics
conference series features 20 papers dealing with seven broad
topics: Design theory, history, surveys, astronomy, representation,
non-Western architecture and mathematics, and design analysis.
Contributors from Portugal, Italy, the United States, Australia,
Ireland, Denmark, Iran, Mexico and India present a lively and
varied portrait of relationships between architecture and mathematics
from the ancient to the actual.
June 2008 / Paper / ISBN
978-88-88479-18-7 / 244 pp. printed on acid-free paper / €35.00
Euro
Published by Kim Williams
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The Nexus Conferences:
Nexus
2008
Relationships
Between Architecture and Mathematics
23-24-25 June 2008, San Diego, California
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