Nexus Network Journal 12,1: Architecture and Mathematics

Letter From The Editor.- Letter From The Editor.- Architecture, Mathematics and Perspective.- Giotto and Renaissance Perspective.- Perspective, a Visionary Process: The Main Generative Road for Crossing Dimensions.- Perspective in a box.- Juan Bautista Villalpando and the Nature and Science of Architectural Drawing.- Perspective versus Stereotomy: From Quattrocento Polyhedral Rings to Sixteenth-Century Spanish Torus Vaults.- The Sunlight Effect of the Kukulc?n Pyramid or The History of a Line.- Some Adaptations of Relativity in the 1920s and the Birth of Abstract Architecture.- Book Reviews.- The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope: How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the Universe.- The Geometry of an Art. The History of Perspective from Alberti to Monge.- Forma y Representaci?n. Un An?lisis Geom?trico.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303460517X
• ISBN13: 9783034605175
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"