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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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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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Italian Architectural Ratios in the British Rotunda Typology
Stemming from centrally planned church architecture, the domestic rotunda type counts as one of the most renowned examples of Renaissance...
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Beyond Representation
This paper presents a visual examination of Renaissance architectural drawings explored in collaboration with architecture students at the University...
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The Discourse on Perspective in Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo’s Trattato dell’Arte della Pittura
The paper presents the complex discourse on perspective which the Milanese painter Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo writes in book V of his Trattato dell’Arte...
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The Circular Helical Staircase at Palazzo Spada
The paper deals with the unpublished survey and geometric analysis of the circular helical staircase built around 1660 in Palazzo Spada’s wing on Via...
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Baldassare Peruzzi and Theatrical Scenery in Accelerated Perspective
From the early sixteenth century, stage sets in the Italian theatre were constructed in accelerated perspective . The stage and scenery were shallow,...
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Rectangular Ratios in the Design of Villas from Serlio’s Manuscript for Book VII of Architecture
The object of the research is to recognize the application of the seven rectangular ratios described by Serlio in Book I on Geometry (1545) in the...
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Renaissance Architecture
In classical culture, architecture and mathematics were strongly connected by a parallel sense of beauty. The conceptual beauty of mathematical rules...
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Subsymmetries of the Point Groups in Architectural Designs
Throughout history, the straightforward use of the point groups of symmetry has been ubiquitously found in various designs from decorative patterns...
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Perspettiva ridotta a perfezione: Glimpses of Daniele Barbaro’s Perspective Theory
This contribution is intended to identify some textual elements, apparently secondary in Daniele Barbaro’s treatise on perspective, which either...
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Map** the Persistence and Evolution of the Quincunx
The quincunx is a pattern that passes through different ages and cultures of Western world. It spread in the Byzantine era; it flourishes during the...
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A Method for Recognising Oval Forms: The Case Study of a Copperplate Engraving of the Bibliotheca Wolfenbüttel 1705/23
A general procedure for recognising and identifying oval forms is suggested and performed on an eighteenth century engraving representing the...
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The Perspective of Daniele Barbaro
Renaissance scholar Daniele Barbaro, perhaps best known for his commentary on Vitruvius and his patronage of Palladio, also worked extensively on...
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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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Daniele Barbaro and Mathematical Instruments
Part IX of La practica della perspectiva was planned as an attentive examination of the instruments for perspective drawing, a topic which comprised...
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Baroque Architecture
The Baroque approach to geometry is challenging and playful. Complex shapes are experimented with and new layouts are designed, giving birth to...
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Vision and Representation in Architecture and Mathematics
Editor-in-Chief Kim Williams examines the role of vision and interpretation in establishing relationships between architecture and mathematics, and...
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Perspective Transformations for Architectural Design
Geometric transformations enable to represent spatial objects in different ways dependent of the kind of transformation. The methods of...
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Nexus 2018: Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics
Nexus 2018, the 12th international, interdisciplinary conference for architecture and mathematics, took place in Pisa in June 2018. From among the 43...
