Nexus Network Journal 12,1

Architecture and Mathematics
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-0346-0517-5
Verlag: Birkhäuser

Buch, Englisch, 165 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 271 g

Reihe: Nexus Network Journal

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Kim

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Letter From The Editor.- Letter From The Editor.- Architecture, Mathematics and Perspective.- Giotto and Renaissance Perspective.- Perspective, a Visionary Process: The Main Generative Road for Crossing Dimensions.- Perspective in a box.- Juan Bautista Villalpando and the Nature and Science of Architectural Drawing.- Perspective versus Stereotomy: From Quattrocento Polyhedral Rings to Sixteenth-Century Spanish Torus Vaults.- The Sunlight Effect of the Kukulcán Pyramid or The History of a Line.- Some Adaptations of Relativity in the 1920s and the Birth of Abstract Architecture.- Book Reviews.- The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope: How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the Universe.- The Geometry of an Art. The History of Perspective from Alberti to Monge.- Forma y Representación. Un Análisis Geométrico.