Architecture, Mathematics and Perspective

Front Matter....Pages i-iv
Letter From The Editor....Pages 1-3
Giotto and Renaissance Perspective....Pages 5-32
Perspective, a Visionary Process: The Main Generative Road for Crossing Dimensions....Pages 33-46
Perspective in a box....Pages 47-62
Juan Bautista Villalpando and the Nature and Science of Architectural Drawing....Pages 63-73
Perspective versus Stereotomy: From Quattrocento Polyhedral Rings to Sixteenth-Century Spanish Torus Vaults....Pages 75-111
The Sunlight Effect of the Kukulcán Pyramid or The History of a Line....Pages 113-130
Some Adaptations of Relativity in the 1920s and the Birth of Abstract Architecture....Pages 131-147
The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope: How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the Universe....Pages 149-152
The Geometry of an Art. The History of Perspective from Alberti to Monge....Pages 153-157
Forma y Representación. Un Análisis Geométrico....Pages 159-161
Back Matter....Pages 165-165