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Nexus 2008
Schedule of
Events
Monday, 23 June 2008
Morning Session
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9:00-10:00 |
Registration of conference participants
Coffee reception |
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10:00-10:30 |
Inauguration of the conference
Welcoming Comments |
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Session I: 20th-Century Design
Analysis |
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10:40-11:10 |
Steven Fleming
and Mark Reynolds
An Historio-Geometrical Analysis of The Salk and
its Unbuilt Gardens, Introducing a Method for Testing Intentions |
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11:20-11:50 |
Michael
Ostwald,
The Fractal Analysis of Twentieth
Century Architecture: The House Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright
and Le Corbusier |
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12:00-12:30 |
John Poros
The Ruled Geometries of Marcel Breuer |
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12:30-13:00 |
Conference
Lunch |
Monday, 23 June 2008
Afternoon Session
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Session II: History |
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15:00-15:30 |
Tessa Morrison
Villalpando's Sacred Architecture in Light of Isaac
Newton's Commentary |
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15:40-16:10 |
João Pedro Xavier
The Book of Perspective of António Rodrigues's
Architectural Treatise from 1576 |
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16:15-16:45 |
Coffee Break |
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16:50-17:20 |
Michael R. Ytterberg
Alberti's Sant' Andrea and the Etruscan Proportion |
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Morning Session
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Session III: Astronomy |
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9:00-9:30 |
Niels Bandholm
The Celestial Key: Heaven Projected on Earth |
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9:40-10:10 |
Jang Hoon Kim and Sang Hun Park
Mathematical
Interpretation of a Thirteen Hundred Year-Old Stone Masonry Observatory |
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10:15-10:45 |
Coffee Break |
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10:50-11:20 |
Maria Zack
Robert Hooke's Fire Monument: Architecture as a Scientific
Instrument |
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11:25-12:30 |
Discussion |
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12:30-15:00 |
Conference Lunch |
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Afternoon Session
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Session IV: Non-Western Architecture |
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15:00-15:30 |
Peter W. Saltzman
Quasi-Periodicity in Islamic Ornamental Design |
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15:40-16:10 |
Alfonso Ramírez
Ponce
Poetry, Music and Architecture |
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16:15-17:30 |
Poster Session (with Coffee Break) |
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17:30-18:30 |
General Assembly, Nexus Association for Architecture and Mathematics |
Wednesday, 25 June
2008
Morning Session
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Session V: Representation |
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9:00-9:30 |
Kristina Luce
Raphael and the Pantheon's Interior: a Pivotal Moment
in Architectural Representation |
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9:40-10:10 |
Ning Gu
A Grammar for Dynamic and Autonomous Design in
3D Virtual Environments |
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10:15-10:45 |
Coffee Break |
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Session VI: Survey |
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11:40-12:10 |
Avril Behan and Rachel Moss
Metrology
& Proportion in the Ecclesiastical Architecture of Medieval
Ireland |
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12:15-12:45 |
Maurice Murphy,
Sara Pavia, Eugene
McGovern
Correlation of Laser-Scan Surveys
of Irish Classical Architecture with Historic Documentation from
Architectural Pattern Books |
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13:00-15:00 |
Conference Lunch |
Wednesday, 25 June
2008
Afternoon Session
Thursday, 26 June
2008
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