Nexus Network Journal Canons of Form-Making In Honour of Andrea Palladio 1508–2008 /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Wassell, Stephen R. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Williams, Kim (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2008.
• Σειρά: Nexus Network Journal ; 10,2
• Θέματα: Architecture.; Buildings.; Mathematics.; Architecture / Design.; Building Types and Functions.; Mathematics, general.

This volume features a collection of papers dedicated to "Canons of Form-Making", in honor of the 500th anniversary of the birth of architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580). Theorist as well as practitioner, Palladio's architecture was based on well-defined canons that he had gleaned fro...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Letter from the Editors
• Letter from the Editors
• Canons of Form-Making
• Andrea Palladio (1508–1580)
• Palladio, Pythagoreanism and Renaissance Mathematics
• A Formal Language for Palladian Palazzo Façades Represented by a String Recognition Device
• A Perspective Analysis of the Proportions of Palladio’s Villa Rotonda: Making the Invisible Visible
• The Doric Order as a Fractal
• Roaming Point Perspective: A Dynamic Interpretation of the Visual Refinements of the Greek Doric Temple
• The Turkish Baths in Elbasan: Architecture, Geometry and Wellbeing
• Mathematics as the Vital Force of Architecture
• Didactics
• The Use of Linear Fractional Transformations to Produce Building Plans
• Geometer’s Angle
• Dynamic Root Rectangles Part Three: Root-Three Rectangles, Palladian Applications
• Book Reviews
• Branko Mitrovié and Stephen R. Wassell (eds.) Andrea Palladio: The Villa Cornaro in Piombino Dese
• Deborah Howard and Laura Moretti (eds.) Architettura e Musica nella Venezia del Rinascimento.