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Building more mathematico in Renaissance Venice
In the mid-fifteenth century, Venice inherited Cardinal Bessarione’s collection of ancient manuscripts, an exceptional legacy that contributed to the...
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Partitioning Sites for Invention in Serlio’s and Palladio’s Palazzi
Throughout history, diagrammatic drawing formed a modus operandi for generating architectural typologies, creating spatial hierarchies, codifying...
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Irrational Numbers in Vitruvius’s Fanum Basilica
In Book V of De Architectura (c. 20 BC), the Roman architect Vitruvius defined the ground plan of the basilica he designed in Fanum with just six...
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An Exemplary Case Study of Post-WWII Reconstruction in Milan
The paper deals with the use of proportional systems in architecture applied to the case study of the “modern” reconstruction of a fifteenth-century...
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New Approach to Proportional Analysis of Palladio’s Designs in Book II with Particular Attention to Loggias
The proportions that inform the plans in Palladio’s Quattro Libri have been the subject of studies for several decades and remained unsolved. Since...
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Palladio’s Debt to Venice
Imagine the Bacino of Venice without the three Palladian churches. Without Palladio’s impact on la Serenissima it is likely we would not have many...
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A Revised Analysis of the Villa Cornaro
The 2006 book by Branko Mitrović and Stephen R. Wassell, Andrea Palladio: Villa Cornaro in Piombino Dese , which was based on a 2003 survey as well as...
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Geometry, Modularity and Proportion in the Extraordinario Libro by Sebastiano Serlio: 50 Portals Between Regola and Licentia
The Extraordinario Libro by Sebastiano Serlio ( Extraordinario Libro di Architettura, Per Giovan de Tournes, Lyon,
1551 ) contains 50 plates that...
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Palladio’s Long Reach in His Century and Beyond
This “Letter from the Editor” begins with an explanation of the impetus for this special issue honoring Carl and Sally Gable for their exemplary...
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Geometric Proportions in Measured Plans of the Pantheon of Rome
The Pantheon in Rome has been depicted in countless paintings and measured drawings. This paper considers how the building and its subsequent...
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(Article II.15.) Baroque Mind-set and New Science a Dialectic of 17th-Century High Culture Sarton Chair Lecture, Ghent University, 13 November 2008
The “New Science” of Galileo, Kepler, Harvey, Descartes, Boyle, Steno, etc., and the Baroque in visual arts and literature, are two conspicuous...
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Geometrical Proportion in the Sixteenth Century: Methods and Constraints
Common conceptions about Gothic and Renaissance architectural proportion systems contrast the mediaeval geometrical methods with the arithmetical,...
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From Renaissance Musical Proportions to Polytonality in Twentieth Century Architecture
Studies on relationships between music and architecture, inherent in the Renaissance theory of proportions, have focused primarily on comparing...
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The Mathematics of Palladio’s Villas
Much has been written about the mathematical qualities of Andrea Palladio's architecture, including his own I quattro libri dell'architettura. Often...
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Golden Proportions in a Great House: Palladio’s Villa Emo
Palladio created two distinct versions of Villa Emo at Fanzolo, the plan published in I quattro libri and the constructed villa that survives to this...
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The Salk: A Geometrical Analysis Supported by Historical Evidence
This paper presents a geometrical analysis of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies by Louis Kahn, 1959–1965. With recourse to construction...
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The Science Behind Francesco Borromini’s Divine Geometry
The buildings of Francesco Borromini (1599–1667) rarely follow the accepted design standards of the time and their meaning eludes traditional...
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Dom Hans van der Laan and the Plastic Number
The plastic number discovered by Dom Hans van der Laan differs from all previous systems of architectural proportions in several fundamental ways....
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Alberti ’s Sant’Andrea and the Etruscan Proportion
Sant’Andrea in Mantua is the last of Alberti’s churches yet it is the most complete, and the one in which his intentions seem to be clearest. It...