Ostwald, Michael J.
Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future
1. The Revolutionary, The Reactionary and The Revivalist: Architecture and Mathematics After 1500
Michael J. Ostwald, Kim Williams
Part VII. Theories of Representation
2. Architecture, Mathematics and Theology in Raphael’s Paintings
David Speiser
3. Raphael and the Pantheon’s Interior: A Pivotal Moment in Architectural Representation
Kristina Luce
4. Design and Perspective Construction: Why Is the
Richard Talbot
5. Perspective in António Rodrigues’s
João Pedro Xavier
Part VIII. 1500
6. Ottoman Architecture: Relationships between Architectural Design and Mathematics in Sinan’s Works
Zafer Sağdiç
7. The Mathematics of Palladio’s Villas
Stephen R. Wassell
8. Golden Proportions in a Great House: Palladio’s Villa Emo
Rachel Fletcher
9. The Hidden Pavement Designs of the Laurentian Library
Ben Nicholson, Jay Kappraff, Saori Hisano
10. Measuring up to Michelangelo: A Methodology
Paul A. Calter, Kim Williams
11. António Rodrigues, a Portuguese Architect with a Scientific Inclination
João Pedro Xavier
12. Villalpando’s Sacred Architecture in the Light of Isaac Newton’s Commentary
Tessa Morrison
13.
Rumiko Handa
14. The Science Behind Francesco Borromini’s Divine Geometry
John G. Hatch
15. Transformational Geometry and the Central European Baroque Church
John Clagett
16. Are There Connections Between the Mathematical Thought and Architecture of Sir Christopher Wren?
Maria Zack
17. Robert Hooke’s Fire Monument: Architecture as a Scientific Instrument
Maria Zack
18. Practical and Theoretical Applications of Geometry at Claude Perrault’s Observatoire de Paris (1667–1672)
Randy S. Swanson
Part IX. 1800–2000
19. Geomantic (Re)Creation: Magic Squares and Claude Bragdon’s Theosophic Architecture
Eugenia Victoria Ellis
20. Mathematics and Music in the Art Glass Windows of Frank Lloyd Wright
Leonard K. Eaton
21. Fractal Geometry in the Late Work of Frank Lloyd Wright: The Palmer House
Leonard K. Eaton
22. Characteristic Visual Complexity: Fractal Dimensions in the Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier
Michael J. Ostwald, Josephine Vaughan, Chris Tucker
23. From Cosmic City to Esoteric Cinema: Pythagorean Mathematics and Design in Australia
Graham Pont, Peter Proudfoot
24. The Ruled Geometries of Marcel Breuer
John Poros
25. Conoids and Hyperbolic Paraboloids in Le Corbusier’s Philips Pavilion
Alessandra Capanna
26. Oscar Niemeyer Curved Lines: Few Words Many Sentences
Benamy Turkienicz, Rosirene Mayer
27. Dom Hans van der Laan and the Plastic Number
Richard Padovan
28. Louis Kahn’s Platonic Approach to Number and Geometry
Steven Fleming
29. The Salk: A Geometrical Analysis Supported by Historical Evidence
Steven Fleming, Mark A. Reynolds
Part X. Contemporary Approaches to Design and Analysis
30. Architecture and Mathematics: Soap Bubbles and Soap Films
Michele Emmer
31. Aperiodic Tiling, Penrose Tiling and the Generation of Architectural Forms
Michael J. Ostwald
32. Paving the Alexanderplatz Efficiently with a Quasi-Periodic Tiling
Ulrich Kortenkamp
33. Generation of Architectural Forms Through Linear Algebra
Franca Caliò, Elena Marchetti
34. The Praxis of Roman Geometrical Ordering in the Design of a New American Prairie House
Donald J. Watts
35. Exploring Architectural Form in Perspective: A Fractal Hypercube-Building
Tomás García-Salgado
36. The Compass, the Ruler and the Computer: An Analysis of the Design of the Amphitheatre of Pompeii
Sylvie Duvernoy, Paul L. Rosin
37. Correlation of Laser-Scan Surveys of Irish Classical Architecture with Historic Documentation from Architectural Pattern Books
Maurice Murphy, Sara Pavia, Eugene McGovern
Part XI. Theories and Applications of Computer Sciences
38. Mathematics and Architecture Since 1960
Lionel March
39. BiOrganic Design: A New Method for Architecture and the City
Alessandra Capanna
40. Formal Mutations: Variation, Constraint, Selection
Andrzej Zarzycki
41. The Role of Mathematics in the Design Process Under the Influence of Computational and Information Technologies
Arzu Gönenç Sorguç
42. Generative Design Grammars: An Intelligent Approach Towards Dynamic and Autonomous Design
Ning Gu
43. Ethics and Geometry: Computational Transformations and the Curved Surface in Architecture
Michael J. Ostwald
44. Equiangular Numbers
Henry Crapo, Claude Le Conte Poly-Barbut
45.
Alberto Pérez-Gómez
Keywords: Mathematics, Mathematics in Art and Architecture, History of Mathematical Sciences
- Editor
- Ostwald, Michael J.
- Williams, Kim
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2015
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 2015
- Page amount
- 709 pages
- Category
- Natural Sciences
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319001432
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-00142-5