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Two Cultures
Springer 2006; US$ 79.99The range of cultural interests of renowned physicist David Speiser, including the sciences, art, architecture, music, and history of science, has inspired generations of later scientists to look beyond the boundaries of their own disciplines. In this book, seventeen scholars pay tribute to his multifaceted career. more...
Architecture and Mathematics
Springer 2007; US$ 64.95This issue is dedicated to various kinds of patterns in architecture. Buthayna Eilouti and Amer Al-Jokhadar address patterns in shape grammars in the ground plans of Mamluk madrasas, religious schools. Giulio Magli goes back further in history, to the age of Greek colonies in Italy before they were conquered by the Romans, to examine patterns in urban... more...
Nexus Network Journal 10,2
Springer 2008; US$ 69.99This 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 from studying the treatises as well as the remains of architecture... more...
Nexus Network Journal 10,1
Springer 2008; US$ 89.95The quintessential Renaissance Man, Leonardo da Vinci was well aware of the fundamental importance of mathematics for architecture. This issue of the Nexus Network Journal examines Leonardoa (TM)s knowledge of theoretical mathematics, explores how he used concepts of geometry in his designs for architectural projects, and reports on a real-life construction... more...
Nexus Network Journal 9,2
Springer 2008; US$ 54.99Deals with mechanics in architecture, that is, the science of structural mechanics, including the behaviour of structures, internal forces, and deformation, as well as the development of various structural systems to resist thrusts as a result of architectural forms. This title includes the papers that are presented at the Nexus 2006 conference. more...
Nexus Network Journal 11,1
Springer 2009; US$ 109.00In celebration of the 2009 International Year of Astronomy, this issue is devoted to relationships between astronomy, mathematics and architecture. It contains papers that look at how astronomy influenced architecture and urban design. more...
Nexus Network Journal 11,2
Springer 2009; US$ 109.00Both architecture and mathematics are highly structured formal systems expressed through a symbolic language. For architecture, the generating structure might be geometrical, musical, modular, or fractal. This title intends to indicate the relationship between what buildings look like and how they stand up. more...
Nexus Network Journal
Springer 2009; US$ 109.00Baroque architect and mathematician Guarino Guarini is the subject of this issue of the Nexus Network Journal. A group of international scholars were invited to contribute papers that shed light on the unanswered questions in several areas: Baroque architecture in general and Guarini's architecture in particular; philosophy; history of structural... more...
Crossroads: History of Science, History of Art
Springer 2011; US$ 69.99A follow-up to the volume "Discovering the Principles of Mechanics 1600-1800: Essays by David Speiser" (Birkhauser 2008), this volume contains the essays of David Speiser on relationships between science, history of science, history of art and philosophy. more...
Kiss, Kiss, Bark!
Tanglewood Press 2012; US$ 8.99Mattie has a couple of dilemmas. First (sigh), her parents are making her babysit her humiliating younger brother nearly nonstop. What could BE more awful than the constant company of a 4-year-old brother who acts like a dog? Then, her best friend's brother begins to show serious interest in her. Mattie thinks all her prayers have come true, that... more...









