Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future

Edited by Kim Williams () and Michael J. Ostwald ()

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Date: 2015
Edition: 2015
ISBN: 978-3-319-00137-1
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Chapters in this book:

Ch Chapter 1 Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics

Michael J. Ostwald and Kim Williams

Ch Chapter 10 Geometry of Vedic Altars

George Gheverghese Joseph

Ch Chapter 11 Inauguration: Ritual Planning in Ancient Greece and Italy

Graham Pont

Ch Chapter 12 The Geometry of the Master Plan of Roman Florence and Its Surroundings

Carol Martin Watts

Ch Chapter 13 Architecture and Mathematics in Roman Amphitheatres

Sylvie Duvernoy

Ch Chapter 14 The Square and the Roman House: Architecture and Decoration at Pompeii and Herculaneum

Carol Martin Watts

Ch Chapter 15 The “Quadrivium” in the Pantheon of Rome

Gert Sperling

Ch Chapter 16 “Systems of Monads” in the Hagia Sophia Hagia Sophia (Istanbul): Neo-Platonic Mathematics in the Architecture of Late Antiquity

Helge Svenshon and Rudolf H. W. Stichel

Ch Chapter 17 Measure, Metre, Irony: Reuniting Pure Mathematics with Architecture

Robert Tavernor

Ch Chapter 18 Façade Measurement by Trigonometry

Paul A. Calter

Ch Chapter 19 Ancient Architecture and Mathematics: Methodology and the Doric Temple

Mark Wilson Jones

Ch Chapter 2 Can There Be Any Relationships Between Mathematics and Architecture?

Mario Salvadori

Ch Chapter 20 Calculation of Arches and Domes in Fifteenth-Century Samarkand

Yvonne Dold-Samplonius

Ch Chapter 21 Curves of Clay: Mexican Brick Vaults and Domes

Alfonso Ramírez Ponce and Rafael Ramírez Melendez

Ch Chapter 22 Mathematics and Structural Repair of Gothic Structures

Javier Barrallo and Santiago Sanchez-Beitia

Ch Chapter 23 Mathematics of Carpentry in Historic Japanese Architecture

Izumi Kuroishi

Ch Chapter 24 On Some Geometrical and Architectural Ideas from African Art and Craft

Paulus Gerdes

Ch Chapter 25 Design, Construction, and Measurement in the Inka Empire

William D. Sapp

Ch Chapter 26 Vastu Geometry: Beyond Building Codes

Vini Nathan

Ch Chapter 27 Algorithmic Architecture in Twelfth-Century China: The Yingzao Fashi

Andrew I-kang Li

Ch Chapter 28 The Celestial Key: Heaven Projected on Earth

Niels Bandholm

Ch Chapter 29 Friedrich II and the Love of Geometry

Heinz Götze

Ch Chapter 3 Mathematics in, of and for Architecture: A Framework of Types

Michael J. Ostwald and Kim Williams

Ch Chapter 30 Metrology and Proportion in the Ecclesiastical Architecture of Medieval Ireland

Avril Behan and Rachel Moss

Ch Chapter 31 The Cloisters of Hauterive Hauterive, Cistercian Monastery of

Benno Artmann

Ch Chapter 32 The Use of Cubic Equations in Islamic Art and Architecture

Alpay Özdural

Ch Chapter 33 Explicit and Implicit Geometric Orders in Mamluk Floors: Secrets of the Sultan Hassan Floor in Cairo

Gulzar Haider and Muhammad Moussa

Ch Chapter 34 The Fibonacci Sequence and the Palazzo della Signoria Palazzo della Signoria (Florence) in Florence

Maria Teresa Bartoli

Ch Chapter 35 What Geometries in Milan Cathedral Milan Cathedral ?

Elena Marchetti and Luisa Rossi Costa

Ch Chapter 36 The Symmetries of the Baptistery and the Leaning Tower of Pisa Leaning Tower of Pisa

David Speiser

Ch Chapter 37 Musical Proportions at the Basis of Systems of Architectural Proportion both Ancient and Modern

Jay Kappraff

Ch Chapter 38 From Renaissance Musical Proportions to Polytonality in Twentieth Century Architecture

Radoslav Zuk

Ch Chapter 39 Quasi-Periodicity in Islamic Geometric Design

Peter Saltzman

Ch Chapter 4 Relationships Between History of Mathematics and History of Art

Clara Silvia Roero

Ch Chapter 40 The Universality of the Symmetry Concept

István Hargittai and Magdolna Hargittai

Ch Chapter 41 Contra Divinam Proportionem

Marco Frascari and Livio G. Volpi Ghirardini

Ch Chapter 42 Alberti Alberti, Leon Battista ’s Sant’Andrea and the Etruscan Proportion

Michael R. Ytterberg

Ch Chapter 43 The Numberable Architecture of Leon Battista Alberti Alberti, Leon Battista as a Universal Sign of Order and Harmony

Livio G. Volpi Ghirardini

Ch Chapter 44 Leon Battista Alberti Alberti, Leon Battista and the Art of Building

Salvatore di Pasquale

Ch Chapter 45 Verrocchio Verrocchio (Andrea del Verrocchio) ’s Tombslab for Cosimo de’ Medici Tombslab for Cosimo de’ Medici: Designing with a Mathematical Vocabulary

Kim Williams

Ch Chapter 46 A New Geometric Analysis of the Pazzi Chapel Pazzi Chapel (Florence) in Santa Croce, Florence

Mark A. Reynolds

Ch Chapter 47 Muqarnas: Construction and Reconstruction

Yvonne Dold-Samplonius and Silvia L. Harmsen

Ch Chapter 5 Art and Mathematics Before the Quattrocento: A Context for Understanding Renaissance Architecture

Stephen R. Wassell

Ch Chapter 6 The Influence of Mathematics on the Development of Structural Form

Holger Falter

Ch Chapter 7 Old Shoes, New Feet, and the Puzzle of the First Square in Ancient Egyptian Architecture

Peter Schneider

Ch Chapter 8 Geometric and Complex Analyses of Maya Architecture: Some Examples

Gerardo Burkle-Elizondo, Nicoletta Sala and Ricardo David Valdez-Cepeda

Ch Chapter 9 A New Geometric Analysis of the Teotihuacan Complex

Mark A. Reynolds

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