Sylvie Duvernoy
Sylvie Duvernoy is an architect, graduated
at Paris University in 1982.
She later participated in the Ph. D. program of the Architecture
School of Florence University and was awarded the Italian degree
of "Dottore di Ricerca" in 1998.
She currently teaches architectural drawing at the architecture
faculty of Ferrara University, and gives lectures at the Ph.D.
program at the architecture faculty of Florence University.
The researches brought along since the beginning of the post-graduate
studies, mainly focus on the reciprocal influences between graphic
mathematics and architecture. Architecture history shows that
geometry and its related aesthetic symbolism were always present,
hidden in architectural and urban design from antiquity to modern
times. The way they were involved and the strength with which
they were claimed, vary according to historical periods. These
relationships have always been expressed by the means of the drawing:
the major and unavoidable tool of the design process.
The results of her studies were published and communicated in
several international meetings and reviews.
She is actually contributing editor (for book reviews) of the
Nexus Network Journal: a peer-reviewed journal about relationships
between mathematics and architecture, and co-organizer of the
Nexus biennial conferences.
Beside the research and teaching, she always had a private professional
activity. After having worked for a few years in the Parisian
office of an international Swiss architecture firm, she is now
partner of an associate office in Florence, whose design works
cover a wide range of design problems, from remodeling and restoration
to new constructions, in Italy and abroad. She has participated
at every Nexus conference since 2000.