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Schedule
of Events
Municipal Auditorium Casa
da Música
Saturday,
15 June 2002
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14:30-15:30 |
Registration of conference participants |
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16:00-18:30 |
Inauguration of the conference
Greetings from the authorities
Presentations:
- Lionel March
"Architecture and Mathematics from the 1960s
to the present "
- João Pedro
Xavier
"Exposition and architectural analysis of a pair of works
by Mestre Antonio Rodrigues"
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18:30 |
As Sombras do Tempo ...
The
Shadows of Time…
Opening Reception of
the Exhibit at the Solar da
Praça de Santa Maria, Rua Direita, Óbidos |
Sunday, 16 June 2002
Morning
Session: "Measurement Old and New"
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9:00-9:40 |
Robert Tavernor
Metre Rod: Rationality and the Triumph of the Irrational |
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9:50-10:30 |
Peter Schneider
Old Shoes, New Feet: The Puzzle
of the First Square in Ancient Egyptian Architecture |
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Break |
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10:50-11:30 |
Sylvie Duvernoy
Architecture and mathematics in Roman Amphitheatres |
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11:40-12:20 |
Richard Padovan
Dom Hans van der Laan and the Plastic Numbers |
Sunday, 16 June 2002
Afternoon
Session: "Architecture and Mathematics
in
the 17th and 18th Centuries"
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14:30-15:30 |
Alberto Pérez-Gómez
Charles-Etienne Briseux's Musical Analogy and the
Limits of Instrumentality in Architecture |
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15:40-16:20 |
John Hatch
The Science behind Borromini's Divine Geometry |
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Break |
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16:40-17:20 |
Rumiko Handa
COELUM BRITANNICUM: Inigo Jones and Symbolic Geometry |
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17:30-18:10 |
Randy Swanson
Practical and Theoretical Applications of Geometry at Claude
Perrault's Observatoire de Paris |
Monday, 17 June 2002
Morning
Session: "Architecture and Mathematics
in
the Middle Ages"
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8:30-9:30 |
Marie-Thérèse
Zenner
Structural Stability and the Mathematics
of Motion in Medieval Architecture |
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9:40-10:20 |
Anthony Scibilia
Perspective Before Perspective:
The Spaces of Medieval Architecture |
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10:30-11:10 |
Andrew
I-kang Li
Algorithmic Architecture in 12th-century China: The Yingzao
Fashi |
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Break |
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11:30-12:10 |
Vini Nathan
Vastu Geometry: Beyond Building Codes |
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12:20-13:00 |
Alpay
Özdural
The Use of Cubic Equations in Islamic Art and Architecture |
Monday, 17 June 2002
Afternoon
Session
Tuesday, 18 June 2002
Morning Session: "Computer Tools for Architecture
and Mathematics"
9:00-13:00
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