Nexus Network Journal 14,1

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-iv

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2. Letter from the Editor

   1. Architecture, Systems Research and Computational Sciences

      • Kim Williams

      Pages 1-2

3. Architecture, Systems Research and Computational Sciences

   1. Dealing with Information, Complex Dynamics and Organizations: Notes on Architecture, Systems Research and Computational Sciences

      • Gonçalo Furtado

      Pages 3-15

   2. Information, Architecture, Complexity

      • Pau de Solà-Morales

      Pages 17-24

   3. After the Paradigm of Contemporary Physics in Architecture: Spatial Possibilities and Variations

      • Lora Dikova

      Pages 25-34

   4. Informational Architectures of the SSA and Knud Lönberg-Holm

      • Suzanne Strum

      Pages 35-52

   5. Modularity and Proportions in Architecture and their Relevance to a Generative Approach to Architectural Design

      • Marie-Pascale Corcuff

      Pages 53-73

   6. Counterpoint in the Visual Arts. A Perspective Based on my Graphical and Sculptural Work

      • Philip Van Loocke

      Pages 75-96

4. Didactics

   1. Fractal Shape

      • Maycon Ricardo Sedrez, Alice T. Cybis Pereira

      Pages 97-107

   2. Möbius Strip Segmented into Flat Trapezoids: Design-Build Project by the Departments of Architecture and Mathematics of the Technische Universität Darmstadt

      • Jürgen Bokowski, Heike Matcha

      Pages 109-118

5. Other Research

   1. Architecture as a Mathematical Function: Reflections on Gottfried Semper

      • Ute Poerschke

      Pages 119-134

   2. From Drawing to Technical Drawing

      • Adriana Rossi

      Pages 135-149

   3. Domes in the Islamic Architecture of Cairo City: A Mathematical Approach

      • Ahmed Ali Elkhateeb

      Pages 151-176

   4. The Vault of the Chapel of the Presentation in Burgos Cathedral: “Divine Canon? No, Cordovan Proportion”

      • Tomás Gil-López

      Pages 177-189

6. Book Review

   1. Book Review

      • Sylvie Duvernoy

      Pages 191-193

7. Back Matter

   Pages 194-194

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The Winter 2012 (vol. 14 no. 1) issue of the Nexus Network Journal is dedicated to the theme “Architecture, Systems Research and Computational Sciences”. This is an outgrowth of the session by the same name which took place during the eighth international, interdisciplinary conference “Nexus 2010: Relationships between Architecture and Mathematics, held in Porto, Portugal, in June 2010. Today computer science is an integral part of even strictly historical investigations, such as those concerning the construction of vaults, where the computer is used to survey the existing building, analyse the data and draw the ideal solution. What the papers in this issue make especially evident is that information technology has had an impact at a much deeper level as well: architecture itself can now be considered as a manifestation of information and as a complex system. The issue is completed with other research papers, conference reports and book reviews.

• Architecture
• Computational Sciences
• Mathematics

• Kim Williams Books, Turin (Torino), Italy

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