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Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future

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    Chapter 1 The Revolutionary, The Reactionary and The Revivalist: Architecture and Mathematics After 1500
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    Chapter 2 Architecture, Mathematics and Theology in Raphael’s Paintings
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    Chapter 3 Raphael and the Pantheon’s Interior: A Pivotal Moment in Architectural Representation
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    Chapter 4 Design and Perspective Construction: Why Is the <Emphasis Type="Italic">Chalice</Emphasis> the Shape It Is?
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    Chapter 5 Perspective in António Rodrigues’s Tratado de Arquitectura
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    Chapter 6 Ottoman Architecture: Relationships between Architectural Design and Mathematics in Sinan’s Works
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    Chapter 7 The Mathematics of Palladio’s Villas
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    Chapter 8 Golden Proportions in a Great House: Palladio’s Villa Emo
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    Chapter 9 The Hidden Pavement Designs of the Laurentian Library
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    Chapter 10 Measuring up to Michelangelo: A Methodology
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    Chapter 11 António Rodrigues, a Portuguese Architect with a Scientific Inclination
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    Chapter 12 Villalpando’s Sacred Architecture in the Light of Isaac Newton’s Commentary
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    Chapter 13 <Emphasis Type="Italic">Coelum Britannicum</Emphasis>: Inigo Jones and Symbolic Geometry
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    Chapter 14 The Science Behind Francesco Borromini’s Divine Geometry
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    Chapter 15 Transformational Geometry and the Central European Baroque Church
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    Chapter 16 Are There Connections Between the Mathematical Thought and Architecture of Sir Christopher Wren?
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    Chapter 17 Robert Hooke’s Fire Monument: Architecture as a Scientific Instrument
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    Chapter 18 Practical and Theoretical Applications of Geometry at Claude Perrault’s Observatoire de Paris (1667–1672)
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    Chapter 19 Geomantic (Re)Creation: Magic Squares and Claude Bragdon’s Theosophic Architecture
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    Chapter 20 Mathematics and Music in the Art Glass Windows of Frank Lloyd Wright
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    Chapter 21 Fractal Geometry in the Late Work of Frank Lloyd Wright: The Palmer House
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    Chapter 22 Characteristic Visual Complexity: Fractal Dimensions in the Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier
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    Chapter 23 From Cosmic City to Esoteric Cinema: Pythagorean Mathematics and Design in Australia
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    Chapter 24 The Ruled Geometries of Marcel Breuer
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    Chapter 25 Conoids and Hyperbolic Paraboloids in Le Corbusier’s Philips Pavilion
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    Chapter 26 Oscar Niemeyer Curved Lines: Few Words Many Sentences
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    Chapter 27 Dom Hans van der Laan and the Plastic Number
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    Chapter 28 Louis Kahn’s Platonic Approach to Number and Geometry
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    Chapter 29 The Salk: A Geometrical Analysis Supported by Historical Evidence
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    Chapter 30 Architecture and Mathematics: Soap Bubbles and Soap Films
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    Chapter 31 Aperiodic Tiling, Penrose Tiling and the Generation of Architectural Forms
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    Chapter 32 Paving the Alexanderplatz Efficiently with a Quasi-Periodic Tiling
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    Chapter 33 Generation of Architectural Forms Through Linear Algebra
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    Chapter 34 The Praxis of Roman Geometrical Ordering in the Design of a New American Prairie House
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    Chapter 35 Exploring Architectural Form in Perspective: A Fractal Hypercube-Building
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    Chapter 36 The Compass, the Ruler and the Computer: An Analysis of the Design of the Amphitheatre of Pompeii
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    Chapter 37 Correlation of Laser-Scan Surveys of Irish Classical Architecture with Historic Documentation from Architectural Pattern Books
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    Chapter 38 Mathematics and Architecture Since 1960
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    Chapter 39 BiOrganic Design: A New Method for Architecture and the City
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    Chapter 40 Formal Mutations: Variation, Constraint, Selection
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    Chapter 41 The Role of Mathematics in the Design Process Under the Influence of Computational and Information Technologies
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    Chapter 42 Generative Design Grammars: An Intelligent Approach Towards Dynamic and Autonomous Design
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    Chapter 43 Ethics and Geometry: Computational Transformations and the Curved Surface in Architecture
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    Chapter 44 Equiangular Numbers
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    Chapter 45 Architecture as Verb and the Ethics of Making
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Title
Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future
Published by
Springer International Publishing, January 2015
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-00143-2
ISBNs
978-3-31-900142-5, 978-3-31-900143-2, 978-3-31-934311-2
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, Michael J. Ostwald

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Unknown 37 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 30%
Student > Master 10 27%
Professor 2 5%
Librarian 2 5%
Student > Bachelor 1 3%
Other 5 14%
Unknown 6 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 9 24%
Design 8 22%
Engineering 5 14%
Social Sciences 4 11%
Computer Science 1 3%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 8 22%