Nexus Network Journal Canons of Form-Making In Honour of Andrea
This volume features a collection of papers dedicated to "Canons of Form-Making", in honor of the 500th anniversary of the birth of architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580). Theorist as well as practitioner, Palladio's architecture was based on well-defined
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VOLUME 10, NUMBER 2 Autumn 2008
Nexus Network Journal Vol. 10 No. 2 Pp. 207-380 ISSN 1590-5896
CONTENTS
Letter from the Editors 211
STEPHEN R. WASSELL AND KIM WILLIAMS
Canons of Form-Making 213
STEPHEN R. WASSELL. Andrea Palladio (1508-1580)
227
LIONEL MARCH. Palladio, Pythagoreanism and Renaissance Mathematics
245
BUTHAYNA EILOUTI. A Formal Language for Palladian Palazzo Façades Represented by a String Recognition Device
269
TOMÁS GARCÍA-SALGADO. A Perspective Analysis of the Proportions of the Villa Rotonda: Making Visible the Invisible
283
CARL BOVILL. The Doric Order as a Fractal
291
MICHAEL DUDDY. Roaming-Point Perspective: A Dynamic Interpretation of the Visual Refinements of the Greek Doric Temple
307
ROBERTO B.F. CASTIGLIA, MARCO GIORGIO BEVILACQUA. The Turkish Baths in Elbasan: Architecture, Geometry and Well-Being
323
ANAT DAVID-ARTMAN. Mathematics as the Vital Force of Architecture
Didactics 331
CHRISTOPHER STONE. The Use of Linear Fractional Transformations to Produce Building Plans
Geometer’s Angle 343
RACHEL FLETCHER. Dynamic Root Rectangles Part Three: Root-Three Rectangles, Palladian Applications
Book Reviews 375
KIM WILLIAMS. Andrea Palladio: The Villa Cornaro in Piombino Dese, Branko Mitrovi and Stephen R. Wassell, eds.
379
SYLVIE DUVERNOY. Architettura e Musica nella Venezia del Rinascimento, Deborah Howard and Laura Moretti, eds.
LETTER FROM THE EDITORS Perhaps no other single architect has had an impact on the face of Western architecture as has Andrea Palladio (1508-1580). The characteristic forms used in his villas, basilicas and palazzos were adopted and adapted for widespread use first in England and then in the United States and are now as representative of those lands as they are of the Veneto which saw their birth. But perhaps an even greater legacy of Palladio is his Four Books of Architecture, one of the first treatises on architecture that was richly illustrated and intended for a readership of architects and builders rather than intellectuals. Thanks to the clarity and scope of the Four Books, they can still be studied with profit today. What makes the Four Books of enduring interest is that Palladio set forth his canons of architecture, that is, the rules he used to create his architectural forms, from the details and proportions of the orders to the layout of floor plans for various building types. These rules, rather than remaining specific to a single building type at a unique moment in time, have been studied and abstracted and reapplied to find new, fresh applications. This is the aspect we most wish to honor with this special issue of the Nexus Network Journal, entitled “Canons of Form-Making,” dedicated to the quincentenary of Palladio’s birth. The issue opens with Stephen R. Wassell’s “Andrea Palladio (1508-1580)”. This brief biography was originally written for “The Year of Palladio” website of the Institute for Classical Architecture and Classical America (http://www.classicist.org/resources/year-ofpalladio/). The editors therefore wish to t
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