Nexus Network Journal: Architecture and Mathematics Online
CFP Analytical Design in Architecture
The Nexus Network Journal is pleased to announce a Call for Papers
Analytical Design in Architecture: New Developments
Guest Editors:
Vilmos Katona and Kristóf Fenyvesi
Architecture could be considered as arising from the interaction between aesthetics and function. In other words, creativity in architecture involves both arts and precise planning, and is accordingly inspired by both nature’s complexity and the human mind’s capacity for non-restrictive abstraction.
To bring these two halves together, architectural design could be understood as an organically evolving context of information patterns. Moreover, novel pattern languages could be developed integrating syntax analyses, design algorithms, fractal theories, gamification, STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and other miscellaneous computational and mathematical approaches.
The goal of this special issue is to mobilize the synergies between various types of analytical knowledge for developing new platforms of intuitive planning and providing objective feedback for designers on a variety of design methods.
[Image credits: (c) ICD/ITKE University of Stuttgart.]
This Call for Papers can be downloaded here: NNJ_Call for Papers_Analytical_Design.
Deadline for submissions for review: 31 January 2023
Nexus 2023 Torino Call for Presentation Proposals
Nexus 2023: Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics
12 – 15 June 2023
Torino, Italy
hosted by
DAD – Department of Architecture and Design of the Politecnico di Torino
and
Kim Williams Books
It is our great pleasure to announce the Call for Proposals for the 14th international, interdisciplinary conference “Nexus 2023: Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics”, to take place 12 – 15 June 2023 in Torino, Italy, presented by DAD – Department of Architecture and Design of the Politecnico di Torino and Kim Williams Books.
This important meeting is the fourteenth 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 (San Sebastián – Donostia, Spain), 2018 (Pisa, Italy), and 2020/2021 (Kaiserlautern, Germany, held online).
CFP From Geometry to Fabrication
The Nexus Network Journal is pleased to announce a Call for Papers
From Geometry to Fabrication in Architecture
Guest Editors:
Vesna Stojaković and Bojan Tepavčević
Novel design methods such as fabrication-aware design, structurally informed design, material based design reflect increased interest towards creating new relations between geometry and fabrication in architecture. The objective of this special edition is to examine different relationships between geometry, architecture and fabrication. How can we efficiently fabricate complex geometric shapes in architecture? How can architectural design be enhanced through the connection of geometry and material constraints? Can we use fabrication tools to develop new language of geometric forms? Researchers, designers and builders are invited to submit articles on the relationship between geometry and fabrication process in architecture addressing these and similar questions and objectives.
This Call for Papers can be downloaded here: NNJ_Call for Papers_Geometry-Fabrication.
Deadline for submissions for review: 1 December 2022
Volume 24 Number 1 | 2022
"Form-Finding, Architecture and Mathematics"
Editors-in-Chief: Kim Williams and Michael J. Ostwald
Read the Letter from the Editor
Nexus Network Journal vol. 24 no. 1 (2022)
Now available at SpringerLink!
CFP Ratio and Proportion extension
The deadline for submissions has been extended to 15 February 2022
The Nexus Network Journal is pleased to announce a Call for Papers
Ratio and Proportion in Architecture
Guest Editor:
Stephen R. Wassell
To commemorate the 450th anniversary of the publication of Silvio Belli’s treatise "On Ratio and Proportion", the Nexus Network Journal is dedicating a special issue to ratio and proportion in architecture. We hope to be able to present, through a collection of diverse research papers, a broad overview of the many facets of this fundamental concept. We welcome papers covering any cultures and any historical periods. We especially encourage a focus on contemporary architects and their works in which proportion has played a key role.
This Call for Papers can be downloaded here: NNJ_Call for Papers_Ratio-Proportion.
Deadline for submissions for review: 15 January 2022 15 February 2022
Volume 23 Number 4 | 2021
"Modelling: Conceiving, Testing, Defining, Convincing"
Guest Editor: João Pedro Xavier
Read the Letter from the Guest Editor
Cover Photo: From “Physical Models and Innovation in Building and Civil Engineering” by Bill Addis. 1:20 scale measurement model in acrylic resin of the roof for the University Library, Basel, 1964. Photo: Heinz Hossdorf, reproduced by kind permission of Pepa Cassinello
Nexus Network Journal vol. 23 no. 4 (2021)
Now available at SpringerLink!
Volume 23 Number 3 | 2021
"The Building Blocks of Architecture and Mathematics"
Editors-in-Chief: Kim Williams and Michael J. Ostwald
Nexus Network Journal vol. 23 no. 3 (2021)
Now available at SpringerLink!
2020 Impact Factor
The Nexus Network Journal is pleased to announce its 2020 impact factors: the 2-year IF is 0.338, while the 5-year IF is 0.541, a substantial gain over 2019.
SpringerNature recognizes the NNJ for Editorial Excellence
SpringerNature, co-publisher with Kim Williams Books of the Nexus Network Journal, has recognized the NNJ for editorial excellence.
The recognition says:
Your journal is in the top 25% of qualifying journals* for editorial excellence.
Journal authors have the chance to tell us about their publishing experience throughout the year with the journal author satisfaction survey. The survey results reflect how highly your authors rate their experience publishing with Nexus Network Journal.
2020 was an exceptionally trying year. We appreciate the work, commitment, and passion that you and your Editorial Board continued to bring to your journal, resulting in these extraordinary accomplishments. Thank you!
*Qualifying criteria: Only journals with an external editorial board that receive ten or more responses from published corresponding authors in 2020 were considered in the analysis. The journal also had to receive an overall satisfaction score of or over the mean average for the year. From this selection of journals the top performing journals were chosen based on their mean score for the two statements “The editorial advice and comments throughout the process helped to improve the paper" and "The editors managed the peer review process well", asked about on a 5 point scale: strongly disagree (1), disagree (2), neutral (3), agree (4), strongly agree (5).
Co-Editors-in-Chief Kim Williams and Michael Ostwald extend our warmest thanks to Editorial Board, the authors and the peer reviewers who have made the NNJ the high-quality journal that it is today.
Sharing your article in the NNJ
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Springer makes it easy for authors to share their work with a content-sharing initiative called "SharedIt". All information can be found here:
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On this site the author is asked for the DOI of the article and an email address, and Springer will send a link. Alternately, on the webpage of the article, clicking on the tab "About this article" takes you to a page where there is a button "Get Shareable Link". The link that appears can be posted on all self-archiving sites (such as ResearchGate and Academia) and allows other researchers to access and read the article, even if they are not subscribers to the journal.
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