- Six articles on arches as gateways from science to culture.- Articles on mathematical elements in historic and contemporary architecture as well as on ratios and morphologic rhythms.- Two book reviews
Part of the book series: Nexus Network Journal (NNJ, volume 8,2)
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This book presents an exploration of the arch from the points of view of architecture, mathematics, engineering, construction history, and cultural symbolism. The arch, one of the most beautiful ways that architects invented to go from "here” to "there,” spans greater distances and sustains larger loads than a simple post and beam structure, but because it is also more complex, an Eastern proverb called it "the structure that never sleeps.” Leonardo da Vinci described the arch as "two weaknesses which, leaning on each other, become a strength,” a metaphor for the way that science and art lean on each other to strengthen our lives.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nexus Network Journal 8,2
Book Subtitle: Architecture and Mathematics
Series Title: Nexus Network Journal
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Basel 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-7761-8Published: 01 December 2006
Series ISSN: 1590-5896
Series E-ISSN: 1522-4600
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IV, 117
Topics: Mathematics, general