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Corresponding Editor, Nexus Network Journal
Areas of study: Music and Architecture, Bio-organic design
Geographic area: Western Europe

Alessandra Capanna is an Italian architect living and working in Rome. She has taken her degree in Architecture at University of Rome "La Sapienza", from which she also received her Ph. D, discussing a thesis entitled "Strutture Matematiche della Composizione", concerning the logical paradigms in music and in architecture. She is the author of Le Corbusier. Padiglione Philips, Bruxelles (Universale di Architettura 67, 2000), on the correspondence between the geometry of hyperbolic paraboloids and technical and acoustic needs, and its final and aesthetics consequences. Among her published articles on mathematical principles both in music and in architecture are "Una struttura matematica della composizione", remarking the idea of self-similarity in composition; "Musica e Architettura. Tra ispirazione e metodo", about three architectures by Steven Holl, Peter Cook and Daniel Libeskind; and "Iannis Xenakis. Combinazioni compositive senza limiti", taken from a lecture given at the Dipartimento di Progettazione Architettonica e Urbana at the University of Rome. She is teacher at the First Faculty of Architecture of Rome "La Sapienza". She has taken part to Nexus Conferences III and VI speaking about Conoids and Hyperbolic Paraboloids in Le Corbusier's Philips Pavilion (2000) and BiOrganic Design. A New Method for Architecture and the City (2006).

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Alessandra Capanna
Via della Bufalotta, 67
00139 Roma ITALY
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