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  • Apr 2007

Nexus Network Journal 9,1

Architecture and Mathematics

Birkhäuser

Editors:

  1. Kim Williams

    1. Torino, Italy

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  • Six research articles, two on Mamluk madrasas
  • Conference reports

Part of the book series: Nexus Network Journal (NNJ, volume 9,1)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-3
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  2. Letter from the Editor

  3. Research

    1. A Generative System for Mamluk Madrasa Form-Making

      • Buthayna H. Eilouti, Amer M. Al-Jokhadar
      Pages 7-29

    2. A Computer-Aided Rule-Based Mamluk Madrasa Plan Generator

      • Buthayna H. Eilouti, Amer M. I. Al-Jokhadar
      Pages 31-57

    3. Curve Fitting in Architecture

      • Dirk Huylebrouck
      Pages 59-70

  4. Geometer’s Angle

  5. Conference report

  7. Exhibit Review

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About this book

This issue is dedicated to various kinds of patterns in architecture. Buthayna Eilouti and Amer Al-Jokhadar address patterns in shape grammars in the ground plans of Mamluk madrasas, religious schools. Giulio Magli goes back further in history, to the age of Greek colonies in Italy before they were conquered by the Romans, to examine patterns in urban design. In Traditional Patterns in Pyrgi of Chios: Mathematics and Community Charoula Stathopoulou examines the geometric patterns that decorate the buildings of the town of Pyrgi, on the Greek island of Chios. Curve Fitting is a study of ways to construct a function so that its graph most closely approximates the pattern given by a set of points. Dirk Huylebrouck’s paper examines how a pattern of points extracted from an arch might be associated to a precise mathematical curve. James Harris looks at the designs of Frank Lloyd Wright and Piet Mondrian to extract the rules of their pattern generation and propose possible applications.

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Editors and Affiliations

  • Torino, Italy

    Kim Williams

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Nexus Network Journal 9,1

  • Book Subtitle: Architecture and Mathematics

  • Editors: Kim Williams

  • Series Title: Nexus Network Journal

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8519-4

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

  • eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-8443-2Published: 16 April 2007

  • Series ISSN: 1590-5896

  • Series E-ISSN: 1522-4600

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: III, 155

  • Topics: Mathematics, general

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