The 2012 edition of the Nexus conference on architecture and mathematics includes a competition for the logo. The conference logo will appear on the website, on all printed announcements and posters concerning the conference, and on all conference material, and a special webpage on the conference website will provide space for the winning designer to explain the concept and process behind the creation of the logo. All competition entries will appear on a website. A selection of the best entries will be exhibited during the Nexus 2012 conference.

Call for Logo Designs

The logo should capture the "nexus" of architecture and mathematics, the interdisciplinary subject of the Nexus conferences. Past logos for Nexus conferences from 1996 to 2010, as well as competition submissions for the 2010 logo competition can be found on the Nexus 2010 logo webpage.  References to the conference venue in the city of Milan are also appreciated. Designers should remember that the logo design should be meaningful at a variety of scales, from full-size to thumbnail, and that it will be used on the cover of a future issue of the Nexus Network Journal (about 12 cm x 12 cm, or 5 x 5 in), and will appear online as well. Scaling the image up and down during the design phase will help the designer be sure that the logo is readable in all formats.

Who can submit

The competition is open to all those who would like to submit a design. Teachers are particularly encouraged to use the competition as a starting point for a class project.

What to submit

Logo proposals should be submitted in digital format (.jpg or .gif) in a low resolution (96 dpi) on a page size no larger than a standard A4 page (210 x 297 mm). The winner will be asked to send the winning image in an uncompressed format (.bmp or .tif) at a 300 dpi resolution. The proposal can be accompanied by a short (one-paragraph) explanation about how the image was created and what it is intended to signify (but remember, the image should really speak for itself, making the "nexus" of architecture and mathematics clear without needing any verbal explanation. Please include a coversheet with the candidate’s name and contact information.

Deadlines

Logo proposals must be submitted no later than 31 December 2011 for review and selection. Proposals will be posted on the website before the winning design is announced.

The winner will be notified by 31 January 2012.

Where to submit

Logo proposals should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

I'm very pleased to send news about three new publications by authors who are part of the Nexus community.

Paulus Gerdes, whose paper "On Some Geometrical and Architectural Ideas from African Art and Craft" appeared in the book Nexus II: Architecture and Mathematics" rom the 1998 Nexus conference, has just published the color version of his book African Pythagoras: A study in culture and mathematics education. It is available as in print and as a download from: http://stores.lulu.com/pgerdes.
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Istvan and Magdolna Hargittai, who participated at the very first Nexus conference in 1996, and published a paper entitled "The Universality of the Symmetry Concept" in Nexus: Architecture and Mathematics have recently published Visual Symmetry. Information is available at: http://www.worldscibooks.com/general/7042.html
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Dirk Huylebrouck has published two articles in the Nexus Network Journal: "Curve Fitting in Architecture" (vol. 9, no. 1, 2007), and most recently, with Antonia Redondo Buitrago and Encarnacio Reyes Iglesias, "Octagonal Geometry of the Cimborio in Burgos Cathedral" (vol 13, no. 1, 2011).  Scientific American translated a short version of his paper on Rinus Roelofs’ (also a Nexus auhor) discovery of a mathematical mistake by Leonardo, entitled "Lost in Translation: Leonardo da Vinci's Mathematical Slip-Up". See
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=davinci-mathematical-slip-up

Our Nexus community is really productive! Congratulations to these authors!


I am pleased to forward to Nexus Network Journal readers the announcement of the important conference announced by Matt Cohen of Washington State University.

 

“Architectural Proportional Systems in the History of Architecture,”

Leiden, The Netherlands, 17-19 March 2011. The conference will feature twenty-eight speakers, some of whom have published in the NNJ, including Mark Wilson Jones and Volker Hoffmann. The conference will also host Howard Burns (keynote) and a prerecorded video interview with James S. Ackerman.

Details are available here: http://www.hum.leiden.edu/icd/proportion-conference

Congratulations to Matt on organizing such a fine event!

Because of numerous requests from those preparing abstracts for submission for the conference "Nexus 2012: Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics", the deadline for submission has been extended from 15 February to 15 March 2011. Abstracts can be submitted to Kim Williams at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. any time between now and the 15 March deadline. 

I am looking forward to hearing from all of you!  Kim

This is a reminder to all of you who hope to participate in the Nexus conference for architecture and mathematics, Milan, 11-14 June 2012, that the deadline for submission of abstracts is Tuesday, 15 March 2011. Abstracts can be submitted to Kim Williams at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. any time between now and the 15 March deadline. 

I am looking forward to hearing from all of you!  Kim

This is final call for submissions for the special issue of the NNJ dedicated to "Persian Architecture and Mathematics", guest edited by Reza Sarhangi. Full information is available at:

https://www.nexusjournal.com/call-for-papers/235-cfp-persian-architecture-and-mathematics.html

The deadline for submission of abstracts is Friday, 1 April 2011

Very best wishes,  Kim

The Nexus conferences for architecture and mathematics are very pleased to congratulate Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura, who was a keynote speaker at the Nexus 2010 conference in Porto, for having won the 2011 edition of the Pritzker Prize. One of Architect Souto de Moura's outstanding projects is the Braga Municipal Football stadium, which was toured by Nexus participants. Thanks go to Porto organizer João Pedro Xavier for having invited Souto de Moura to address the conference, making it possible for us to hear him talk about his projects in person.

Information about the 2011 Pritzker laureate, including a splendid photo gallery, can be found on the Pritzker Architecture Prize website.

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for an upcoming issue of the Nexus Network Journal dedicated to Persian Architecture and its relationships with mathematical aesthetics of symmetry, balance, proportions, harmony, and their executions dedicated to Persian Architecture and its relationships with mathematical aesthetics of symmetry, balance, proportions, harmony, and their executions, from antiquity to modern times. The issue will be guest edited by Reza Sarhangi. The deadline for submissions of abstracts is April 1, 2011. You can download at the Call for Papers at: https://www.nexusjournal.com/images/CFP/CFP-NNJ-Persian.pdf

This Call for Papers can also be accessed from the NNJ homepage, https://www.nexusjournal.com

The goal of this special issue of Nexus Network Journal devoted to Architecture and Persian Mathematics is to highlight investigations of selected architectural structures built throughout the long history of Iranian plateau for their connections to mathematical aesthetics.

Guest editor Reza Sarhangi is a professor of mathematics at Towson University, Towson, Maryland, USA. He teaches graduate courses in the study of patterns and mathematical designs, and supervises student research projects in this field. He is the founder and President of the Bridges Organization, which oversees the annual international conference of Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science (www. BridgesMathArt.Org). For more information, see http://pages.towson.edu/gsarhang/index.html

The schedule is as follows:

  • Deadline for submissions for review: April 1, 2011
  • Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2011
  • Deadline for submission of final manuscript: October 31, 2011
  • Publication: NNJ vol. 14 no. 1, Spring 2012

Submissions in electronic form (.doc or .pdf) should be sent to: Reza Sarhangi This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

I hope you'll forward this message to colleagues and friends you know are interesting, and we look forward to receiving many submissions. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

As ever,

Kim