Nexus Network Journal Canons of Form-Making In Honour of Andrea Palladio 1508<U+0013>2008 /

This volume features a collection of papers dedicated to "Canons of Form-Making", in honor of the 500th anniversary of the birth of architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580). Theorist as well as practitioner, Palladio's architecture was based on well-defined canons that he had gleaned fro...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Wassell, Stephen R. (Editor), Williams, Kim. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Basel : Birkhũser Basel, 2009.
Series:Nexus Network Journal ; 10,2
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8766-2
Table of Contents:
  • From the contents L. March: Palladio, Pythagoreanism and Renaissance Mathematics
  • B. Eilouti: The Palladian Faȧde Language Represented by a String Recognition Device
  • T. Salgado-Garcia: A Perspective Analysis of the Rotonda<U+0019>s Proportions: Making Visible the Invisible
  • C. Bovill: The Doric Order as a Fractal
  • R.B.F. Castiglia, M.G. Bevilacqua: Architecture, Geometry and Well-Being: The Case Of The Turkish Baths in Elbasan (Albania)
  • G. Ferrero, C. Cotti, M. Rossi, C. Tedeschi: Geometry of Imaginary Space: Architectural developments in the formal Research of M. C. Escher and Buckminster Fuller
  • L. Consiglieri, V. Consiglieri: Continuity versus Discretization
  • A. David-Artman: Mathematics as the Vital Force of Architecture
  • M. Duddy: Roaming-Point Perspective: The mathematics of the Visual Refinements of the Greek Doric temple
  • R. Fletcher: Palladio<U+0019>s Villa Mocenigo Marocco and Palazzo Della Torre.-Ch. Stone: The Use of Linear Fractional Transformations to Produce Building Plans.