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Nexus Network Journal 11,2

Architecture and Mathematics

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Kim Williams
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  • Each research paper includes a bibliography for further reading
  • Papers present discussions of architecture in Europe, Japan, the Middle East, and Central Asia
  • Issue also includes book reviews and conference reports

Part of the book series: Nexus Network Journal (NNJ, volume 11,2)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 145-147
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  2. Letter from the Editor

    1. Letter from the Editor

      • Kim Williams
      Pages 149-150

  3. Research

    1. Continuity versus Discretization

      • Luisa Consiglieri, Victor Consiglieri
      Pages 151-162

    2. Cognitive-Mathematical Approaches for Evaluating Architectural Contextual Fit

      • Natheer Abu-Obeid, Fuad K. Malkawi, Khaled Nassar, Basel Al-eideh
      Pages 163-181

    3. Nicola Zabaglia and the School of Practical Mechanics of the Fabbrica of St. Peter’s in Rome

      • Nicoletta Marconi
      Pages 183-200

    4. Mathematics for/from Society: The Role of the Module in Modernizing Japanese Architectural Production

      • Izumi Kuroishi
      Pages 201-215

    5. Can Chaos Theory Explain Complexity In Urban Fabric? Applications in Traditional Muslim Settlements

      • Mustapha Ben Hamouche
      Pages 217-242

    6. Antonelli’s Dome for San Gaudenzio: Geometry and Statics

      • Massimo Corradi, Valentina Filemio, Massimo Trenetti
      Pages 243-256

    7. Music and Architecture: A Cross between Inspiration and Method

      • Alessandra Capanna
      Pages 257-271

    8. Using Key Diagrams to Design and Construct Roman Geometric Mosaics?

      • Bernard Parzysz
      Pages 273-287

    9. The N4C Joint

      • Jesús Molina
      Pages 289-304

  4. Didactics

    1. Geometries of Imaginary Space: Architectural Developments of the Ideas of M. C. Escher and Buckminster Fuller

      • Giovanni Ferrero, Celestina Cotti, Michela Rossi, Cecilia Tedeschi
      Pages 305-316

    2. Mathematical Machines: A Laboratory for Mathematics

      • Laura Tedeschini Lalli
      Pages 317-324
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The title of this issue of the Nexus Network Journal, "Architecture, Mathematics and Structure," is deliberately ambiguous. At first glance, it might seem to indicate the relationship between what buildings look like and how they stand up. This is indeed one aspect of what we are concerned with here. But on a deeper level, the fundamental concept of structure is what connects architecture to mathematics. Both architecture and mathematics are highly structured formal systems expressed through a symbolic language. For architecture, the generating structure might be geometrical, musical, modular, or fractal. Once we understand the nature of the structure underlying the design, we are able to "read" the meaning inherent in the architectural forms. The papers in this issue all explore themes of structure in different ways.

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