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How Should We Study Architecture
and Mathematics?
While preparing the Call for
Papers for the Nexus 2006 conference on architecture and mathematics,
I examined the Nexus archives to verify, within Nexus, what subjects
had been discussed at length and what was missing. It became
clear from this examination that Nexus contributions contain
not only a wide variety of subject matter, but a wide variety
of methods of study as well. In order to begin a dialogue about
methodology (a topic that was touched on during the Round Table
discussion at Nexus 2000 in Ferrara), I solicited comments from
two scholars in different fields on the paper presented at the
first Nexus conference in Fucecchio in 1996 by John Clagett entitled
"Transformational Geometry and the Central European Baroque
Church" (see the abstract of this paper at http://www.nexusjournal.com/conferences/N1996-Clagett.html).
Dr. David Speiser, physicist, who has followed Nexus since its
inception, and Dr. Sandro Caparrini, historian of mathematics
and newcomer to Nexus, bring not only different disciplinary
points of view to the subject but who have different experiences
of the Nexus community.
Read
the comments of Dr. Speiser and Dr. Caparrini |