Architecture, Mathematics and Perspective

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: García-Salgado, Tomás (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2010.
• Series: Nexus Network Journal, Architecture and Mathematics
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Architecture.; Mathematics, general.; Architectural History and Theory.

Table of Contents:

• 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 Kukulcán 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 Representación. Un Análisis Geométrico.