Nexus Network Journal: Architecture and Mathematics Online
CFP Urban Settlements and Cosmology
The Nexus Network Journal is pleased to announce a Call for Papers
Urban Settlements and Cosmology
Guest Editors:
Olimpia Niglio (Hokkaido University, Graduate School Humanities, and Human Sciences, Japan)
Rana P.B. Singh (formerly Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India)
The main purpose of this issue is:
- to analyze the relation between urban planning and cosmology;
- to understand how this dialogue has helped to build important historical settlements;
- to see how it is reinterpreted today in terms of landscape cosmology.
This Call for Papers can be downloaded CFP_Urban-Settlements-and-Cosmology.
NEXUS 2020 postponed to 2021
NEXUS 2020 postponed to 2021
We have been closely monitoring the situation of COVID-19 in order to decide what is best for us to do about our Nexus 2020 conference planned for 21-24 July.
In light of the uncertainties about the eradication of the threat of the virus and the possible continuation of quarantine to greater or lesser extends, and the risks of international travel and meetings of groups of people, we have decided that it is in the best interests of all to postpone the conference until 2021. This is disappointing, of course, because we were very much looking forward to the meeting this summer, but our thoughts are first and foremost to preserve the health of all.
Our plan at the moment is to leave conference plans in place and simply carry them out next year (probably 26 – 29 July 2021). The conference book that was planned for 2020 will go forward with publication in 2021 and be available at the time of the conference.
We will publish new deadlines for registration and payment of the conference fees in time on our website.
We hope that you all will be then able to attending NEXUS in 2021. Looking forward to see you then in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Patterns and Spatial Organisation deadline 15 May 2020
Important:
At the request of the Guest Editors, the deadline for submissions for "Patterns and Spatial Organisation" has been extended. The new deadline is:
Friday 15 May 2020.
This is a firm deadline and there will be no further extension.
The Nexus Network Journal is pleased to announce a Call for Papers
Patterns and Spatial Organisation: Culture, History and Future Perspectives
Guest Editors: Yannis Zavoleas (University of New South Wales) & Mark Taylor (Swinburne University of Technology)
Image (c) Constantine Doxiadis archives
The main purpose of this issue is to link advanced technological endeavours with core discourse in architecture and urban design (urbanism) developed since early twentieth-century modernism.
This Call for Papers can be downloaded at CFP_Patterns and Spatial Organisation.
Volume 21 Number 3 | 2019
"Geometry from All Angles"
Editors: Kim Williams and Michael J. Ostwald
Image: Norman Foster, Reischstag Dome, Berlin. Photo by Franca Caliò and Elena Marchetti, from "Two Architectures: Two Compared Geometries"
Nexus Network Journal vol. 21 no. 3 (2019)
Now available at SpringerLink!
2018 Impact Factor
The Nexus Network Journal is pleased to announce its 2018 impact factor: 0.431, a 36% increase over the 2017 impact factor of 0.316. Our H index has increased to 12, from the 2017 H index of 9.
Many many thanks to the entire Nexus community -- especially the Editorial Board of the journal and the Scientific Committee of the conferences, the authors and the peer reviewers -- for making these outstanding results possible!
Submissions to the Nexus Network Journal
Our new online platform for articles submission is operative as of Friday, 16 May 2014.
The Nexus Network Journal, in collaboration with Springer, our publishing partner, has implementing the new Editorial Manager for our journal. EM will allow us to receive submissions, assess proposals and assign reviewers in an efficient and timely manner.
To make your submission, please go the Nexus Network Journal Editorial Manager,
There you will find information about the NNJ, instructions for authors, an author tutorial and other information. You will need to register to create a username and password before submitting.
We look forward to receiving your submission!
Reproducing images
Although it is very easy to find and download material (including drawings, prints, illustrations, charts, tables, photographs and text) from the Internet, this does not mean that it can automatically be published as part of an article in the Nexus Network Journal. Authors are responsible for obtaining (and, where required, paying for) permissions to reproduce images to be included in their papers. We cannot include material where these rights have not been obtained. We encourage authors use original, unpublished figures, photographs, tables, and other content where possible. One alternative to use of images for which permission cannot be obtained is to provide a link to the content on the Internet.
Criteria for acceptance
The peer review system, with all its defects and advantages, is the system used to maintain the integrity and high quality that readers and authors of the Nexus Network Journal have come to expect. To help authors evaluate their own papers before they are submitted to the NNJ and sent for review, we have posted a set of characteristics that can contribute to a paper's acceptance, and a second list of characteristics that often lead to rejection.
Nexus: Leonardo's reciprocal structures on YouTube!
The Italian scientific news program "TGR Leonardo" aired a segment about a Nexus workshop dedicated to Leonardo's reciprocal structures.
The "Leonardo: Architecture and Mathematics" took place in Vinci, Leonardo's birthplace, in the heart of Tuscany, in summer 2003 (the hottest summer on record in Italy). Participants included sculptor Rinus Roelofs (Netherlands), artist Mark Reynolds (USA), architects Joao Pedro Xavier (Portugal), Kim Williams (Italy), Vesna Petresin (Slovenia-UK) and her husband Laurent Paul Robert, Christopher Glass (USA), Biagio Di Carlo (Italy) and Sylvie Duvernoy (Italy), with others joining us for the construction project. The workshop was composed of a seminar, held in the Biblioteca Leonardiana in Vinci, during which participants assembled to discuss the use of geometry in the architecture of Leonardo as found in his sketchbooks, followed by the actual construction of four dome structures based upon Leonardo's system, which took place in Ponte a Egola, 14 km from Vinci. The seminar and the construction were filmed in order to produce a documentary.
