The Nexus Network Journal: Architecture and Mathematics volume 1 (1999) contains articles on architecture and mathematics that present the subject in the widest possible panorama. Thus, like the Nexus conferences and the Nexus series of books, is interdisciplinary and multicultural. The issues explored in this present volume are proportion, number symbolism, triangulation, fuzzy logic and tiling patterns; the cultures discussed include the Egyptian, Mesoamerican, European and Persian; the authors are art historians, geometers, mathematicians and architects.
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Kim Williams, director of the NNJ, also directs the biennial Nexus conferences on architecture and mathematics.
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New York, Great Pyramid, Pyramid of the Sun, Kim Williams, Westminster Abbey, Reza Sarhangi, Southwestern College, Andrea Palladio, Villa Rotonda, John Sharp, Leon Battista Alberti, Peter Eisenman, Biagio Rossetti, Italian Pavements, Santa Maria, Admirable Cipher, Carlo Scarpa, Este Monuments, Golden Mean, Jay Kappraff, Nicholas of Cusa, Richard Foster, Anchorage Press, Architectural Ornament, Baptistery of Florence New!
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