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Nexus Network Journal 12,3

Architecture and Mathematics

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  • Dec 2010

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Editors:
  1. Robert Kirkbride
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  • peer-reviewed articles for researchers, professionals and students

Part of the book series: Nexus Network Journal (NNJ, volume 12,3)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-iii
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  2. Letter from the Guest Editor

    1. Geometries of Rhetoric: An Introduction

      • Robert Kirkbride
      Pages 363-366

  3. Geometries of Rhetoric

    1. “A Strange Catalogue of Things”

      • Dan Rose
      Pages 367-376

    2. Chiasmus, Artificial Memory, and the Arts of Arrangement

      • Donald Kunze
      Pages 377-388

    3. Geometries of Reading, Light of Learning: Louis I. Kahn’s Library at Phillips Exeter

      • Shannon Mattern
      Pages 389-420

    4. Encountering the Geometry and Rhetoric of Lamb’s House, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland

      • Dorian Wiszniewski
      Pages 421-443

    5. From Circle to Ellipse: Footnotes to a Photographic Essay

      • Angela Grauerholz
      Pages 445-458

    6. Friendly and Beautiful: Environmental Aesthetics in Twenty-First-Century Architecture

      • Sherine Mohy El Dine Wahba
      Pages 459-469

    7. Infinite Sequences in the Constructive Geometry Of Tenth-Century Hindu Temple Superstructures

      • Sambit Datta
      Pages 471-483

    8. Computational Organicism: Examining Evolutionary Design Strategies in Architecture

      • Brian Holland
      Pages 485-495

    9. Topology Catastrophe: Catastrophe Narrativization of Urban Morphologies

      • Matt Demers
      Pages 497-505

    10. Geometry and Rhetoric: Thinking about Thinking in Pictures

      • J. M. Rees
      Pages 507-526
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We grasp and transform the world through interplays of quantification and qualification. The cross pollination of geometric and literary figures is deeply embedded in our cognitive habits, instruments of inquiry and the constructed environment. Through time, thought has reflected on the visible processes and products of material craft to explain and train the invisible workings of the mind. Recursively, material craft embodies a tradition of splitting ideas into categorical parts and compositional units for reassembly. Although the mathematical and verbal arts are often placed in contrast, human inventions manifest a weave of alphanumerics. Mythic parables, geometric proofs, memory arts, poems, algorithms, buildings and cities emerge from the intercourse of measure and explication. This special issue of the Nexus Network Journal considers architectonic examples of past, present and potential geometries of rhetoric.

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