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• Author(s): Kim Williams • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser • BISAC: GeneralThe Summer 2011 (vol. 13 no. 2) issue of the Nexus Network Journal features eight papers that resulted from the eighth international, interdisciplinar...

• Author(s): Kim Williams • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser • BISAC: GeneralWe grasp and transform the world through interplays of quantification and qualification. The cross pollination of geometric and literary figures is de...

• Author(s): Kim Williams • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser • BISAC: AppliedFrom the Back CoverThe aim of this collection of essays is to present a broad portrait of the ways in which two seemingly different disciplines are in...

• Author(s): Kim Williams • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser • BISAC: History & PhilosophyFrom the Back CoverLeon Battista Alberti (1404¬-1472) was a highly prolific polymath of the fifteenth century. Although his contribut...

• Author(s): Kim Williams • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser • BISAC: History & PhilosophyFrom the Back CoverLeon Battista Alberti (1404¬-1472) was a highly prolific polymath of the fifteenth century. Although his contribut...

• Author(s): Kim Williams • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser • BISAC: AppliedFrom the Back CoverThe aim of this collection of essays is to present a broad portrait of the ways in which two seemingly different disciplines are in...

• Author(s): Kim Williams • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser • BISAC: GeneralFrom the Back CoverThe title of this issue of the Nexus Network Journal, "Architecture, Mathematics and Structure," is deliberately ambiguous. At firs...

• Author(s): Kim Williams • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser • BISAC: GeneralThe Autumn 2011 (vol. 13 no. 3) issue of the Nexus Network Journal features nine papers guest edited by José Calvo-Lopez dedicated to the theme "From...

• Author(s): Kim Williams • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser • BISAC: AppliedFrom the Back CoverThis volume is dedicated to "Mechanics in Architecture", that is, the science of structural mechanics, including the behaviour of s...

• Author(s): Kim Williams • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser • BISAC: AppliedThis book presents an exploration of the arch from the points of view of architecture, mathematics, engineering, construction history, and cultural sy...

• Author(s): Kim Williams • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser • BISAC: AppliedFrom the Back CoverThe aim of this collection of essays is to present a broad portrait of the ways in which two seemingly different disciplines are in...

• Author(s): Kim Williams • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser • BISAC: AppliedFrom the Back CoverThe aim of this collection of essays is to present a broad portrait of the ways in which two seemingly different disciplines are in...

• Author(s): Kim Williams • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser • BISAC: AppliedFrom the Back CoverThe quintessential Renaissance Man, Leonardo da Vinci was well aware of the fundamental importance of mathematics for architecture....

• Author(s): Kim Williams • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser • BISAC: CriticismLetter From The Editor.- Letter From The Editor.- Architecture, Mathematics and Perspective.- Giotto and Renaissance Perspective.- Perspective, a Vi...

• Author(s): Kim Williams • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser • BISAC: AppliedFrom the Back CoverThis issue is dedicated to various kinds of patterns in architecture. Buthayna Eilouti and Amer Al-Jokhadar address patterns in sha...

• Author(s): Kim Williams • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser • BISAC: GeneralThe Winter 2012 (vol. 14 no. 1) issue of the Nexus Network Journal is dedicated to the theme "Architecture, Systems Research and Computational Science...

• Author(s): Kim Williams • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser • BISAC: History - GeneralFrom the Back CoverIn celebration of the 2009 International Year of Astronomy, this issue of the Nexus Network Journal is devoted to relatio...

• Author(s): Kim Williams • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser • BISAC: GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis volume features a collection of papers dedicated to "Canons of Form-Making", in honor of the 500th anniversary of the birth of...

• Author(s): Kim Williams • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser • BISAC: CriticismLetter from the Editor.- Letter from the Editor.- Recalling Eero Saarinen 1910-2010.- How the Gateway Arch Got its Shape.- Saarinen's Shell Game: Te...

• Author(s): Kim Williams • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser • BISAC: AppliedFrom ancient to modern, architects have looked for fundamental underlying principles of geometry and proportion on which to found their designs. Such ...