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Nexus
2006
Schedule of Events
Faculty of Architecture
Stradone S.
Agostino, 37
16123 Genova ITALY
Conference Room: Aula Benvenuto
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Wednesday, 7 June
2006
Morning Session
Kim Williams,
coordinator
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9:00-10:00 |
Registration of conference participants
Coffee reception |
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10:00-10:30 |
Inauguration of the conference
Welcoming Comments |
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10:40-11:10 |
Clara Silvia Roero
Relationships between History of Mathematics
and History of Art |
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11:20-11:50 |
Mark Wilson Jones
Ancient Architecture and Mathematics:
Methodology and a modular interpretation of the Doric temple |
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12:00-12:30 |
Rudolf Stichel
and Helge Svenshon
Systems of Monads' as Design Principle in Hagia
Sophia, Istanbul: Neo-Platonic Mathematics in the Architecture
of Late Antiquity |
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12:30-13:00 |
Conference Lunch |
Wednesday, 7 June
2006
Afternoon Session
Carol Martin Watts, coordinator
Thursday, 8 June 2006
Morning Session
"The
Computer and Ethics"
Sylvie
Duvernoy, coordinator
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9:00-9:30 |
Alessandra Capanna
BiOrganic design: A New Method for Architecture and
the City |
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9:40-10:10 |
Arzu Gönenç
Sorguç
The Role of Mathematics
in the Design Process under the Influence of Computational and
Information Technologies |
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10:15-10:45 |
Coffee Break |
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10:50-11:20 |
Michael
Ostwald
Ethics and Geometry: Computational
Transformations and the Curved Surface in Architecture |
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11:30-12:00 |
Discussion |
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12:30 |
Conference Lunch |
Thursday, 8 June 2006
Afternoon Session
Donald
J. Watts, coordinator
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15:00-15:30 |
Tomás
García-Salgado
Exploring Architectural
Form in Perspective: A Fractal Hypercube-Building |
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15:40-16:10 |
Richard Talbot
The Design and Perspective Construction of Uccello's
Chalice: Why is the Chalice the Shape it is? |
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16:15-16:45 |
Coffee Break |
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16:50-17:20 |
Maria Zack
Are There Connections Between the Mathematical Thought
and Architecture of Sir Christopher Wren? |
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17:30-18:00 |
Elena Marchetti
and Luisa Rossi Costa
What Geometries in Milan Cathedral? |
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18:00-18:30 |
Discussion |
Friday, 9 June 2006
Morning Session
"Between
Mechanics and Architecture"
Associazione
Edoardo Benevenuto
Patricia
Radelet-De Grave, Coordinator
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9:00-9:30 |
Presentation of the Associazione Edoardo Benevenuto |
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9:30-9:50 |
Patricia Radelet-De
Grave
The beginnings of pre-stressed concrete |
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9:55-10:15 |
Jean Dhombres
From the Geometry of Forms to Forms of Forces in
the Treatises on Naval Architecture from the Seventeenth to the
Twentieth century |
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10:20-10:40 |
Massimo Corradi,
Valentina Filemio and Lorenzo Fontana
Architettura e meccanica nelle costruzioni in terra cruda |
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10:45-11:05 |
Santiago Huerta
Geometry and stability of oval domes |
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11:05-11:30 |
Coffee Break |
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11:30-11:50 |
Federico Foce
Milankovitch's Theorie der Druckkurven. Good
mechanics for masonry architecture |
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11:55-12:35 |
Christiane Kaiser and Karl-Eugen
Kurrer
On the structural behaviour of
the "Fleisch" bridge in Nuremberg (1596-1598) |
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12:40-13:00 |
Discussion |
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13:30 |
Conference Lunch |
Friday, 9 June 2006
Afternoon Session
"Between Mechanics and Architecture"
Associazione Edoardo Benevenuto
Patricia
Radelet-De Grave, Coordinator
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15:10-15:30 |
Dirk Huylebrouck
and Annie Van Maldeghem
Fitting curves and surfaces in architecture |
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15:30-15:50 |
Marco Giorgio
Bevilacqua
Architecture, Mathematics and
Urban Design in the Conception of the Bastion in the Sixteenth
Century |
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15:55-16:15 |
Massimo Corradi
L'Arte della guerra, la teoria delle fortificazioni
e la Mécanique des remblais et des déblais nei
secoli XVI-XVIII |
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16:20-16:40 |
Coffee Break |
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16:45-17:10 |
Dirk
Van de Vijver
Tentare licet. The
Theresian Academy question on the theory of beams of 1783 |
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17:15-17:35 |
Biagio Di Carlo
La Casa Geodetica |
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17:40-18:00 |
Bruna Gaino
Reciprocal Figures |
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18:00-18:30 |
Closing remarks |
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