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A follow-up to the volume "Discovering the Principles of Mechanics 1600-1800. Essays by David Speiser" (Birkhäuser 2008), this volume contains the essays of David Speiser on relationships between science, history of science, history of art and philosophy.

The book offers an intimate look at the exercise of power within Australia's prominent institutions, as experienced by Kim Williams. Through his interactions with influential figures like Rupert Murdoch and Kerry Packer, Williams shares personal insights and anecdotes from his diverse career in media, sports, and business. "Rules of Engagement" reveals the dynamics of leadership and decision-making in the country's top boardrooms and political arenas, providing a unique perspective on the interplay of influence and authority in Australian society.

Exploring themes of compassion and inner beauty, this narrative emphasizes the importance of love and understanding in a world often marked by judgment and superficiality. Inspired by a childhood story, the author seeks to encourage readers to look beyond external appearances and appreciate the deeper qualities of individuals. Through heartfelt illustrations and a message rooted in faith, the book aims to foster connection and empathy, inviting readers to reflect on their own perceptions and relationships.

Leonardo da Vinci was well aware of the fundamental importance of mathematics for architecture. This book examines Leonardo’s knowledge of theoretical mathematics, explores how he used concepts of geometry in his designs for architectural projects, and reports on a real-life construction project using Leonardo’s principles. Authors include Sylvie Duvernoy, Kim Williams, Rinus Roelofs, Biagio Di Carlo, Mark Reynolds, João Pedro Xavier, Vesna Petresin, Christopher Glass, and Jane Burry.

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 canons that he had gleaned from studying the treatises as well as the remains of architecture from antiquity. Palladio himself left to posterity not only his large corpus of built works, but his Quattro libri d'architettura. Three of the papers in this issue are specifically about Palladio and his work. The other papers deal with canons of form-making, ancient and contemporary.

Letter from the Editor.- Letter from the Editor.- Recalling Eero Saarinen 1910-2010.- How the Gateway Arch Got its Shape.- Saarinen's Shell Tensions, Structures, and Sounds at MIT.- The Next Largest The Spatial Dimensions of Liturgy in Eliel and Eero Saarinen's Christ Church Lutheran, Minneapolis.- Morphocontinuity in the work of Eero Saarinen.- Eero Saarinen, Eduardo Catalano and the Influence of Matthew A Challenge to Form and Function.- Eero Saarinen's North Christian Church in Columbus, Indiana.- Other Research.- On the Modular Design of Mughal Riverfront Funerary Gardens.- Discontinuous Double-shell Domes through Islamic eras in the Middle East and Central History, Morphology, Typologies, Geometry, and Construction.- At the Other End of the Sun's A New Interpretation of Machu Picchu.- The Body, the Temple and the Newtonian Man Conundrum.- Book Review.- The Symbol at Your Number and Geometry in Religious Architecture of the Greek and Latin Middle Ages.- Conference Report.- Architecture and Mathematics. A seminar to celebrate Professor emeritus Staale Sinding-Larsen's 80th birthday.- Erratum.- Erratum The Sunlight Effect of the Kukulcán Pyramid or The History of a Line.

Such principles not only provide an order for the formal elements, they ground the architecture in timeless values and provide an order for the formal elements, they ground the architecture in timeless values and provide a source of cultural meaning.

This issue is dedicated to Mechanics in Architecture. It explores the latest findings in the science of structural mechanics, including the behavior of structures, internal forces, and deformation. It also explores the development of new structural systems designed to resist thrusts resulting from new architectural forms. Some of the papers published in this issue were presented at the Nexus 2006 during a special session dedicated to mechanics.

Letter From The Editor.- Letter From The Editor.- Architecture, Mathematics and Perspective.- Giotto and Renaissance Perspective.- Perspective, a Visionary Process: The Main Generative Road for Crossing Dimensions.- Perspective in a box.- Juan Bautista Villalpando and the Nature and Science of Architectural Drawing.- Perspective versus Stereotomy: From Quattrocento Polyhedral Rings to Sixteenth-Century Spanish Torus Vaults.- The Sunlight Effect of the Kukulcán Pyramid or The History of a Line.- Some Adaptations of Relativity in the 1920s and the Birth of Abstract Architecture.- Book Reviews.- The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope: How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the Universe.- The Geometry of an Art. The History of Perspective from Alberti to Monge.- Forma y Representación. Un Análisis Geométrico.

The Summer 2011 (vol. 13 no. 2) issue of the Nexus Network Journal features eight papers that resulted from the eighth international, interdisciplinary conference entitled “Nexus 2010: Relationships between Architecture and Mathematics, held in Porto, Portugal, in June 2010. This is the second issue of this volume that contains papers presented at the conference. In the spirit of interdisciplinarism that characterises the NNJ, the presentations range in time from the historical to the contemporary; in scale from the level of the individual building to urban design; in subject matter from pure architectural theory to building practice; and in themes from geometry and perspective to music. The aim of the NNJ is to provide a wide panorama of the relationships that exist between the disciplines of architecture and mathematics, and this issue captures those relationships in all their richness and variety.