Nexus Network Journal 8,2: Architecture and Mathematics - Softcover

 
9783764377618: Nexus Network Journal 8,2: Architecture and Mathematics
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3764377615 ISBN 13: 9783764377618
Verlag: Birkhäuser, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

This book presents an exploration of the arch from the points of view of architecture, mathematics, engineering, construction history, and cultural symbolism. The arch, one of the most beautiful ways that architects invented to go from "here” to "there,” spans greater distances and sustains larger loads than a simple post and beam structure, but because it is also more complex, an Eastern proverb called it "the structure that never sleeps.” Leonardo da Vinci described the arch as "two weaknesses which, leaning on each other, become a strength,” a metaphor for the way that science and art lean on each other to strengthen our lives.

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Verlag
Birkhäuser
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3764377615
ISBN 13 
9783764377618
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
124
Herausgeber
Williams Kim
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