Geometries of Rhetoric

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Kirkbride, Robert (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2010.
• Σειρά: Nexus Network Journal ; 12,3
• Θέματα: Mathematics.; Architecture.; Mathematics, general.; Architecture, general.; Architectural History and Theory.

We grasp and transform the world through interplays of quantification and qualification. The cross pollination of geometric and literary figures is deeply embedded in our cognitive habits, instruments of inquiry and the constructed environment. Through time, thought has reflected on the visible proc...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Letter from the Guest Editor
• Geometries of Rhetoric: An Introduction
• Geometries of Rhetoric
• “A Strange Catalogue of Things”
• Chiasmus, Artificial Memory, and the Arts of Arrangement
• Geometries of Reading, Light of Learning: Louis I. Kahn’s Library at Phillips Exeter
• Encountering the Geometry and Rhetoric of Lamb’s House, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland
• From Circle to Ellipse: Footnotes to a Photographic Essay
• Friendly and Beautiful: Environmental Aesthetics in Twenty-First-Century Architecture
• Infinite Sequences in the Constructive Geometry Of Tenth-Century Hindu Temple Superstructures
• Computational Organicism: Examining Evolutionary Design Strategies in Architecture
• Topology Catastrophe: Catastrophe Narrativization of Urban Morphologies
• Geometry and Rhetoric: Thinking about Thinking in Pictures
• Book Reviews
• Geometrische Grundlagen der Architekturdarstellung
• Der geometrische Entwurf der Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Bilder einer Ausstellung.