Abstract.The Nexus Network Journal Virtual Library is an annotated bibliography of books related to studies in architecture and mathematics. Books that are available for purchase are linked to Amazon.com. This page features books on Architecture and Mathematics.

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Baglivo, Jenny A. and Jack E. Graver. Incidence and Symmetry in Design and Architecture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).Out of print.

Barrow, John D. The Artful Universe (Clarendon, 1996).

Bennett. James A. The Mathematical Science of Christopher Wren. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982).

Blackwell, William. Geometry and Architecture ( Key Curriculum Press). (ISBN 047109683-0)

Blaser, Werner . Werner Sobek: Art of Engineering.Ingenieur-kunst (Basel: Birkhauser,1999). Reviewed by Holger Falter in the NNJ vol. 1 (1999).

Brunès, Tons. The Secrets of Ancient Geometry and Its Use, 2 vols ( Copenhagen: Rhodos International Science Publishers, 1967). The founder of the Sacred Cut geometry.

Catalano, Eduardo. Structure and Geometry. (Cambridge: Cambridge Architectural Press, 1986).

Dilke, O.A.W. Mathematics and Measurement. (Berkeley CA: University of California Press/British Museum, 1987). Referenced in Lionel March's article, NNJ vol. 3 no. 4.

Doczi, Gyorgy. The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art & Architecture (Boulder: Shambala, 1981).

Ehrenkrantz, Ezra D. The Modular Number Pattern. (London: Alec Tiranti, 1956). Referenced in Lionel March's article, NNJ vol. 3 no. 4.

Freedman, Richard and George L. Hersey. Possible Palladian Villas (Plus a Few Instructively Impossible Ones) (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992).

Gheorghiu, V. and V. Dragomir, Geometry of Structural Forms (Elsevier, 1978). Referenced in Adriana Rossi's article in NNJ vol. 1 no. 4.

Herz-Fischler, Roger. The Shape of the Great Pyramid. (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2000). Reviewed by Mark A. Reynolds in the NNJ vol.3 no.4.

Hiscock, Nigel. The Wise Master Builder: Platonic Geometry in Plans of Medieval Abbeys and Cathedrals. (Hampshire UK: Ashgate, 2000).

Kappraff, Jay. Connections: The Geometric Bridge Between Art and Science (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991). "If I had only one book in my library to which to refer for mathematic questions in art and architecture, this would be the one. An encyclopedic work by a sensitive mathematician" (Comments by Kim Williams, author of Italian Pavements: Patterns in Space).

March, Lionel. Architectonics of Humanism: Essays on Number in Architecture . (London: Academy Editions, 1998). Reviewed by Mark Peterson in NNJ vol.2 no.2.

Naredi-Rainer, Paul von. Architectur und Harmonie - Zahl, Mass und Proportion in der abendländischen Baukunst (Cologne, 1982).

Rodrigues, José Francisco and Kim Williams (eds.) Nexus IV: Architecture and Mathematics (Fucecchio, Florence: Kim Williams Books, 2002). To read abstracts of the papers published here, click here. Order this book directly through the Nexus Network Journal Bookshop!

Rowe, Colin. The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1982).

Schwaller de Lubicz, Rene A., The Temple In Man: Ancient Egyptian Sacred Architecture and the Perfect Man. Trans. Robert Lawlor and Deborah Lawlor. (Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions, 1988).

Sperling, Gert. Das Pantheon in Rom. Abbild und Mass des Kosmos (Neuried, Germany: Ars Una, 1999).

Stevens, Garry. The Reasoning Architect: Mathematics and Science in Design. International Editions, Architecture Series (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1990).

Tompkins, Peter. Secrets of the Great Pyramid (rpt. New York: Budget Books,1997).

Williams, Kim. Italian Pavements: Patterns in Space (Houston: Anchorage Press, 1998).

Williams, Kim (ed.). Nexus: Architecture and Mathematics (Fucecchio, Florence: Edizioni dell'Erba, 1996). To read abstracts of the papers published here, click here. Reviewed by Leonard Eaton's in the NNJ vol. 1 (1999). Order this book directly through the Nexus Network Journal Bookshop!

Williams, Kim (ed.) Nexus II: Architecture and Mathematics (Fucecchio, Florence: Edizioni dell'Erba, 1998). To read abstracts of the papers published here, click here. Order this book directly through the Nexus Network Journal Bookshop!

Williams, Kim (ed.) Nexus III: Architecture and Mathematics (Pisa: Pacini Editore, 2000). To read abstracts of the papers published here, click here. Order this book directly through the Nexus Network Journal Bookshop!

Williams, Robert. The Geometrical Foundation of Natural Structure - A Source Book of Design (New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1972, 1977).

 

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