Books in the Nexus Network Journal series in order

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.

The title of this issue of the Nexus Network Journal, "Architecture, Mathematics and Structure," is deliberately ambiguous. But on a deeper level, the fundamental concept of structure is what connects architecture to mathematics. Both architecture and mathematics are highly structured formal systems expressed through a symbolic language.

Letter from the Editor.- Letter from the Editor.- Recalling Eero Saarinen 1910-2010.- How the Gateway Arch Got its Shape.- Saarinen's Shell Game: Tensions, Structures, and Sounds at MIT.- The Next Largest Thing: The Spatial Dimensions of Liturgy in Eliel and Eero Saarinen's Christ Church Lutheran, Minneapolis.- Morphocontinuity in the work of Eero Saarinen.- Eero Saarinen, Eduardo Catalano and the Influence of Matthew Nowicki: A Challenge to Form and Function.- Eero Saarinen's North Christian Church in Columbus, Indiana.- Other Research.- On the Modular Design of Mughal Riverfront Funerary Gardens.- Discontinuous Double-shell Domes through Islamic eras in the Middle East and Central Asia: History, Morphology, Typologies, Geometry, and Construction.- At the Other End of the Sun's Path: A New Interpretation of Machu Picchu.- The Body, the Temple and the Newtonian Man Conundrum.- Book Review.- The Symbol at Your Door: Number and Geometry in Religious Architecture of the Greek and Latin Middle Ages.- Conference Report.- Architecture and Mathematics. A seminar to celebrate Professor emeritus Staale Sinding-Larsen's 80th birthday.- Erratum.- Erratum to: The Sunlight Effect of the Kukulcán Pyramid or The History of a Line.

Through time, thought has reflected on the visible processes and products of material craft to explain and train the invisible workings of the mind. Mythic parables, geometric proofs, memory arts, poems, algorithms, buildings and cities emerge from the intercourse of measure and explication.

This is an outgrowth of the session by the same name which took place during the eighth international, interdisciplinary conference "Nexus 2010: Relationships between Architecture and Mathematics, held in Porto, Portugal, in June 2010.

from the creation of a design system involving a parametric shape grammar with descriptions to generate urban block layouts within a defined spatial region, to a novel example of a kinetic shape grammar simulating human body movements.

This book explores Persian architecture and mathematics, including domed structures and two-dimensional patterns, elaborate geometry and complex three-dimensional structures of historic monuments, from mathematical ideas to architectonic structures.

This title features papers that examine issues in digital fabrication as well as different mathematical instruments applied to architecture, including geometric tracing systems, proportional systems, descriptive geometry and correspondence analysis.