Nexus Network Journal: Architecture and Mathematics Online
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.
Nexus 2020 Kaiserslautern Deadline Extended to 21 December 2019
Important:
Due to several kind requests, we have decided to extend the deadline for proposals for talks at Nexus 2020. The new deadline is:
Saturday 21 December 2019.
This is a firm deadline and there will be no further extension.
Nexus 2020: Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics
20–23 July 2020
Kaiserslautern, Germany
hosted by
fatuk – Faculty of Architecture, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
and
Kim Williams Books
The 13th international, interdisciplinary conference “Nexus 2020: Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics” will take place 20 - 23 July 2020 in Kaiserslautern, Germany, hosted by fatuk – Faculty of Architecture, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, and Kim Williams Books.
This important meeting is the 12th conference in the Nexus series, following those in 1996 (Fucecchio, Florence, Italy), 1998 (Mantua, Italy), 2000 (Ferrara, Italy), 2002 (Óbidos, Portugal), 2004 (Mexico City), 2006 (Genoa, Italy), 2008 (San Diego, USA), 2010 (Porto, Portugal), 2012 (Milan, Italy) , 2014 (Ankara, Turkey), 2016 (Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain) and 2018 (Pisa).
Download the Call for Presentation Proposals as a PDF
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!
CFP - Complex Vaulted Systems
The Nexus Network Journal is pleased to announce a Call for Papers
Complex Vaulted Systems: Geometry and Architecture from Design to Construction
Guest Editors: Roberta Spallone and Marco Vitali (Politecnico di Torino)
The theme of this special issue encompasses complex vaulted systems over the centuries. Topics of interest include:
- Modeling of historical sources about vaults’ geometry and architecture;
- Morphologic comparative studies of geometrically-shaped vaults;
- Analysis of geometric tracing, stereotomy, centering, and calculus methods in built heritage;
- Investigation of the relationships between geometry and structure in historicized vaulted systems.
This Call for Papers can be downloaded at CFP_Complex Vaulted Systems.
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!
CFP - Patterns and Spatial Organisation
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.
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.
