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Nexus Network Journal
Kim . Ed(S): Williams
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Description for Nexus Network Journal
Paperback. The human tendency to interpret, and create, the environment through numbers is pervasive, with instances from literature and the visual arts too numerous to mention. This special issue of the Nexus Network Journal considers examples in architecture. Editor(s): Williams, Kim. Series: Nexus Network Journal. Num Pages: 535 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AMA; PB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 9. Weight in Grams: 262.
We grasp and transform the world through interplays of quantification and qualification. The cross pollination of geometric and literary figures is deeply embedded in our cognitive habits, instruments of inquiry and the constructed environment. Through time, thought has reflected on the visible processes and products of material craft to explain and train the invisible workings of the mind. Recursively, material craft embodies a tradition of splitting ideas into categorical parts and compositional units for reassembly. Although the mathematical and verbal arts are often placed in contrast, human inventions manifest a weave of alphanumerics. Mythic parables, geometric proofs, memory arts, poems, ... Read more
We grasp and transform the world through interplays of quantification and qualification. The cross pollination of geometric and literary figures is deeply embedded in our cognitive habits, instruments of inquiry and the constructed environment. Through time, thought has reflected on the visible processes and products of material craft to explain and train the invisible workings of the mind. Recursively, material craft embodies a tradition of splitting ideas into categorical parts and compositional units for reassembly. Although the mathematical and verbal arts are often placed in contrast, human inventions manifest a weave of alphanumerics. Mythic parables, geometric proofs, memory arts, poems, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Birkhauser Verlag AG Switzerland
Number of pages
535
Condition
New
Series
Nexus Network Journal
Number of Pages
535
Place of Publication
Basel, Switzerland
ISBN
9783034605212
SKU
V9783034605212
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Ref
99-15
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