Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future

TRAMA

Every age and every culture has relied on the incorporation of mathematics in their works of architecture to imbue the built environment with meaning and order. Mathematics is also central to the production of architecture, to its methods of measurement, fabrication and analysis. This two-volume edited collection presents a detailed portrait of the ways in which two seemingly different disciplines are interconnected. Over almost 100 chapters it illustrates and examines the relationship between architecture and mathematics. Contributors of these chapters come from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds: architects, mathematicians, historians, theoreticians, scientists and educators. Through this work, architecture may be seen and understood in a new light, by professionals as well as non-professionals.Volume II covers architecture from the Late Renaissance era, through Baroque, Ottoman, Enlightenment, Modern and contemporary styles and approaches. Key figures covered in this volume include Palladio, Michelangelo, Borromini, Sinan, Wren, Wright, Le Corbusier, Breuer, Niemeyer and Kahn. Mathematical themes which are considered include linear algebra, tiling and fractals and the geographic span of the volume’s content includes works in the United States of America and Australia, in addition to those in Europe and Asia.

SOMMARIO

Part VII: Theories of Representation.- Part VIII: From 1600 AD to 1900 AD.- Part IX: 1900–2000.- Part X: Contemporary Approaches to Design and Analysis.- Part XI: Theories and Applications of Computer Sciences.- Index.- Acknowledgements.  

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9783319001425
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm Ø 13109 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: XIX, 690 p. 365 illus., 79 illus. in color.
• Pagine Arabe: 690
• Pagine Romane: xix