PROGRAM
Monday, 11 June 2018
MORNING SESSION
- 8.30- 9.30
Registration - 9.30-10.00
Introduction- Claudia Martini | Vice Rector for National Research of the University of Pisa
- Umberto Desideri | Director of DESTeC - University of Pisa
- Vito Cardone | President of Unione Italiana del Disegno
- 10.00-10.20
The Nexus Conferences | Kim Williams - Director, Nexus: Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics
Session: Perspective and space - Chair: João Pedro Xavier
- 10.20-11.00
The Development of the Geometric Concept of Relief Perspective | Cornelie Leopold
11.00-11.30 | Coffee Break
- 11.30-12.10
Hunched Curves in the Vatican: the Vestibule Arch of the Pio Clementino Museum, between Stereotomy and Anamorphosis | Agostino De Rosa and Alessio Bortot - 12.10-12.50
Deconstructing the Imaginary Space of a Quadratura | João Paulo Cabeleira Marques Coelho - 12.50-13.10
Notes on Oblique Space | Giuseppe D’Acunto - 13.10-13.30
Lost and Found: Some Mathematical Messages from Renaissance Tuscany to a 21st-Century Teacher | Snezana Lawrence
13.30-15.00 | Lunch
AFTERNOON SESSION
Session: Space and Dimension - Chair: Sylvie Duvernoy
- 15.00-15.40
The Four-Dimensional House Theorem | Alessandra Capanna - 15.40-16.20
The Mathematical Space of Daniele Barbaro | Cosimo Monteleone - 16.20-16.40
N-Dimensional Perspective: the Mathematics behind the Interpretation of Ancient Perspective | Laura Carlevaris
16.40-17.10 | Coffee Break
Session: Geometry – chair: Mine Özkar
- 17.10-17.50
Peter Nicholson and the First Interpretation of Greek Architectural Mouldings as Sections of a cone | Stefano Chiarenza - 17.50-18.30
A Grammatical Investigation of Utzon’s Spherical Schema Evolution | Rizal Muslimin - 18.30-18.50
On Polygons, Set Squares and Mudéjar Carpentry | Antonia Redondo Buitrago - 18.50-19.10
The Visible and Invisible Geometries of Venice | Radoslav Zuk
Tuesday, 12 June 2018
MORNING SESSION
Session: Historical Analysis – chair: Roberta Spallone
- 9.00-9.40
The Design of Roman Mosaics in North Africa and their Geometric References | Francesca Fatta and Domenico Mediati - 9.40-10.00
Algorithmic Decomposition of Geometric Islamic Patterns: a Case Study with Star Polygon Design in the Tombstones of Ahlat | Asli Agirbas - 10.00-10.20
What We Can Learn from Roman Geometric Mosaics about the People Who Made Them | Bernard Parzysz - 10.20-10.40
A Unified Schema of the Façade of San Miniato Al Monte: the Simultaneity of Interlocking Symbolic Harmonic, Irrational and Perfect Numbers| John Kendall Hopkins - 10.40-11.00
Application of Cubit–Gaz and Shape Grammar in Architecture Plan Design | Sanaz Ahmadzadeh Siyahrood, Arghavan Ebrahimi and Mohammadjavad Mahdavinejad
11.00-11.30 | Coffee Break
Session: Historical Analysis – chair: Kim Williams
- 11.30-12.10
The Six Vitruvian Principles of Architectural Design Reframed within Contemporary Computational Design Discourse | Athanassios Economou - 12.10-12.50
Regola and Licentia in the Extraordinario Libro by Sebastiano Serlio| Roberta Spallone and Marco Vitali - 12.50-13.10
Della Pianta delle Scale of Guarino Guarini| Ornella Zerlenga and Vincenzo Cirillo - 13.10-13.30
Theories and Approaches in Fortifications Design: the Figure of Gaspare Beretta | Anna Marotta, Ursula Zich and Martino Pavignano
13.30-15.00 | Lunch
AFTERNOON SESSION
Session: Historical Analysis – chair: Anna Marotta
- 15.00-15.40
A Reflection on the Cistercian Bernhardinischer Grundtypus| Stefano Brusaporci, Pamela Maiezza and Gianfranco Ruggieri - 15.40-16.20
Giuseppe Valadier’s Urban Layout for Piazza del Popolo In Rome| Daniele Calisi and Matteo Molinari - 16.20-16.40
The Design Process in the Salk Institute by Louis I. Kahn | Isabella Friso and Andrea Giordano
16.40-17.10 | Coffee Break
Session: Historical Analysis – chair: Alessandra Capanna
- 17.10-17.50
Geometrical Design Algorithms in Nineteenth Century Prisons: The Case of the Rotunda in Tempio Pausania | Vincenzo Bagnolo, Andrea Pirinu and Marcello Schirru - 17.50-18.10
Urban Morphology of Geometric Pattern in the Villa Imperial de Petropolis | João Pedro Marque Sêco Dias Carmona - 18.10-18.30
Considerations on the Representations of the Analemma in Renaissance Editions of Vitruvius’s De Architectura| Arturo Gallozzi and Michela Cigola
Wednesday, 13 June 2018
MORNING SESSION
Session: Contemporary Analysis – chair: Maria Zack
- 9.00-9.40
Vittorio Giorgini Spatiology-Morphology Architect: from ‘Curved Systems’ to ‘Conventional Systems’| Denise Ulivieri, Lucia Giorgetti and Benedetta Tognetti - 9.40-10.20
An Isovist Analysis of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House| Michael J. Ostwald and Michael J. Dawes - 10.20-10.40
Logical Accidents: The Problem of the Inside Corner | Michael C. Duddy - 10.40-11.00
Function Should Follow Form: Futures for the Radiant Logic of Carnegie Public Libraries | Oriel E.C. Prizeman, Camilla Pezzica, Mariangela Parisi and Clara-Larissa Lorenz
11.00-11.30 | Coffee Break
Session: Structures and Techniques of Design – chair: Marco G. Bevilacqua
- 11.30-11.50
Composite Interlocking Structures of SL Strands | Shen Guan Shih and Yi Feng Chang - 11.50-12.10
A Key Nexus for Vault Systems from Lecce: Stereometric Correlation between Shape and Structure| Assunta Pelliccio, Marco Saccucci and Ernesto Grande - 12.10-12.30
Morphology of Kinetic Structures by Means of Bar and Plate 4R-Linkages | Valentina Beatini - 12.30-12.50
ArchiFold: an Educational Approach for the Integration of Mathematics in the Architecture Curriculum | Marco Hemmerling and Carlo de Falco - 12.50-13.10
Algorithmic Modeling and Design of the Architectural Shape: A Didactic Experience | Massimiliano Lo Turco, Ursula Zich, Marco Trisciuoglio, Michela Barosio, Maria Luisa Spreafico and Yoseph Bausola Pagliero - 13.10-13.30
The Form of Music. Experiment Between Cymatics and Engineering | Fabio Bianconi, Marco Filippucci and Lorenzo Ciculi
13.30-15.00 | Lunch
AFTERNOON SESSION
Session: Algorithm and Rule Based Design – chair: Cornelie Leopold
- 15.00-15.40
Toward an Algorithm of Visual Design: the Mathematical Approach of Hermann Maertens’ Optische Massstab | Marco Carpiceci and Fabio Colonnese - 15.40-16.20
Towards a Generic Parametric Algorithm for the Geometric Investigation of Baroque Oval Plans: an Application on Sicilian Cases| Cettina Santagati, Federico Mario La Russa, Mariateresa Galizia and Eugenio Magnano di San Lio - 16.20-17.00
Parametric Design applied to Analysis and Optimization of Spatial Deployable Structures| Manuel Alejandro Ródenas-López, Pedro García Martínez, Pedro Miguel Jiménez-Vicario, Adolfo Pérez Egea and Martino Peña Fernández-Serrano
17.00-17.30 | Coffee Break
Session: Algorithm and Rule Based Design – chair: Steve Wassell
- 17.30-18.10
Jules Bourgoin (1838-1908): A Forerunner of Generative Shape Grammars| Marie-Pascale Corcuff - 18.10-18.30
Material Shapes and How to Compute with Them | Benay Gürsoy and Mine Özkar - 18.30-18.50
Form – Formal Making of Traditional Chinese Architecture| Manuela Bassetta
20.30 | Social Dinner at Bagni di Pisa- Terme di San Giuliano
Largo Shelley, 18, San Giuliano Terme (Pisa), 56017 Italy | Transfer by bus – departure at 20.00 from the Conference Venue
Thursday, 14 June 2018
Ph.D. DAY
First Session - Chair: Michael Ostwald
- 9.00-9.20
Curvilinearity in Architecture: Historical and Contemporary Ideas and Examples| Jakub Świerzawski - 9.20-9.40
Complex or Complications? Fractal Geometry in Architecture and Urban Design | Maycon Sedrez - 9.40-10.00
Generating Geodesic Grid Structures by Equally Subdividing Spherical Arc Segments | Willem Gythiel, Mattias Schevenels, Dirk Huylebrouck - 10.00-10.20
The Curve in Herzog & De Meuron's Architecture | Alexandra Castro - 10.20-10.40
The Control of Illusory Space: The Contribution of Jacopo Barozzi Da Vignola and the Anteroom of the Council In Palazzo Farnese at Caprarola | Paolo Di Pietro Martinelli - 10.40-11.00
Religious Architectural Heritage Losing its Functions: Strategies to Mitigate the Problem and Provide New Value through Geographical Context Analysis | Elisabetta Pozzobon
11.00-11.30 | Coffee Break
Second Session - Chair: Kim Williams
- 11.30-11.50
La Manière Universelle of Girard Desargues for the Understanding of Stereotomic Structures| Cristian Boscaro - 11.50-12.10
Geometry, Science and Meaning in the Work of Guarino Guarini| Paolo Borin - 12.10-12.30
Shapes and Models: The Survey for the Study of Structures in Historic Buildings | Raffaella De Marco - 12.30-12.50
Architectonic Tessellations as Constructive Modules | Vera Viana - 12.50-13.10
Modularity in Ancient Grain Storage Systems: Historical Overview and In-Depth Analysis of Moroccan Fortified Granaries | Stefania Landi and Oriol Domínguez Martínez - 13.10-13.30
Envisioning Future Public Spaces: Experiments in Co-Creation and Evaluation of Urban Visions | Diogo Pereira Henriques - 13.30-13.50
Exploring of Topological Architecture: a Review of Topology Influence on Architecture | Maryam Doroudian, Mohamad Reza Bemanian and Mohamad Javad Mahdavinejad