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Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future

Volume II: The 1500s to the Future

von: Kim Williams, Michael J. Ostwald
160,49 €
Verlag:	Birkhäuser
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	11.02.2015
ISBN/EAN:	9783319001432
Sprache:	englisch

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Titelbeschreibung

Every age and every culture has relied on the incorporation of mathematics in their works of architecture to imbue the built environment with meaning and order. Mathematics is also central to the production of architecture, to its methods of measurement, fabrication and analysis. This two-volume edited collection presents a detailed portrait of the ways in which two seemingly different disciplines are interconnected. Over almost 100 chapters it illustrates and examines the relationship between architecture and mathematics. Contributors of these chapters come from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds: architects, mathematicians, historians, theoreticians, scientists and educators. Through this work, architecture may be seen and understood in a new light, by professionals as well as non-professionals.Volume II covers architecture from the Late Renaissance era, through Baroque, Ottoman, Enlightenment, Modern and contemporary styles and approaches. Key figures covered in this volume include Palladio, Michelangelo, Borromini, Sinan, Wren, Wright, Le Corbusier, Breuer, Niemeyer and Kahn. Mathematical themes which are considered include linear algebra, tiling and fractals and the geographic span of the volume’s content includes works in the United States of America and Australia, in addition to those in Europe and Asia.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part VII: Theories of Representation.- Part VIII: From 1600 AD to 1900 AD.- Part IX: 1900–2000.- Part X: Contemporary Approaches to Design and Analysis.- Part XI: Theories and Applications of Computer Sciences.- Index.- Acknowledgements.  

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The aim of this collection of essays is to present a broad portrait of the ways in which two seemingly different disciplines are interconnected. The diversity and varied texture of the essays richly illustrates the affinity between architecture and mathematics. As the almost 100 papers presented in this two-volume publication show, every age and every culture has relied on principles of mathematics incorporated in their works of architecture to imbue their built environment with meaning and order. Included are discussions of geometry, proportional systems, linear algebra, periodic and aperiodic tilings, fractals, perspective, computer science and mechanics. Western architecture of every period is examined: Egyptian, Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Enlightenment, twentieth-century and beyond, as is the architecture of Turkey, China, India, Japan, Australia and Islam. The mathematical nature of the architecture of Leon Battista Alberti, Andrea Palladio and Frank Lloyd Wright is examined, and the philosophical background behind Renaissance architecture is explored. Contributors come from a wide range of disciplines and cultural backgrounds: architects, mathematicians, historians, theoreticians, scientists and educators from the world over. Architecture may be seen and understood in a new light, by professionals as well as non-professionals.

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The most complete anthology addressing a broad panorama of topics regarding relationships between architecture and mathematics Represents the state of the art of multidisciplinary scholarship in architecture and mathematics Sections dealing with specific historical periods are interspersed with sections regarding theory pertinent to those periods Hard-to-find essays collected in a single work Comprehensive introductory essays to both volumes by the editors provide a guide to the disciplineIncludes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras