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Schedule of Events

Sunday, 4 June 2000

15:00-16:30 Registration of conference participants
17:00-19:30

Inauguration of the conference
Greetings from the authorities
Presentations:

  • Luigi Pepe
    "Architettura e matematica a Ferrara "
  • Elena Marchetti and Franca Caliò
    "L'algebra lineare e la generazione di forme architettoniche"
  • Giangiacomo Martines
    "The Pantheon in Rome"

Monday, 5 June 2000

8:30-9:30 Paul Rosin
"On Serlio's Construction of Ovals"
9:40-10:40 Carol Martin Watts
"The Geometry of the Master Plan of Roman Florence and Its Surroundings"
10:40-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Rachel Fletcher
"Golden Proportions in a Great House: Palladio's Villa Emo"
12:15-13:15 Paul Calter and Kim Williams
"Measuring up to Michelangelo: A Methodology"
  Lunch Break
15:00-16:00 David Speiser
"Architecture, Mathematics and Theology in Raphael's Paintings"
 16:15-17:15  Mark Reynolds
"A New Geometric Analysis of the Pazzi Chapel in S. Croce, Florence"
17:30-18:30 Cocktails at the MusArc (National Museum of Architecture, housed in the home of Biagio Rossetti )

Tuesday, 6 June 2000

8:30-9:30 Stephen R. Wassell
"Art and Mathematics Before the Quattrocento: A Context for Understanding Renaissance Architecture"
9:40-10:40 Zafer Sagdic
"Ottoman Architecture in Turkey: Architectural Design and Mathematics in the Work of Sinan"
10:40-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 William D. Sapp
"Design, Construction and Measurement in the Inka Empire"
12:15-13:15 Yvonne Dold-Samplonius
"Calculation of Arches and Domes in 15th Century Samarkand"
  Lunch Break
16:00-18:00 Carol Martin Watts, Moderator
Round Table: Methodologies of Mathematical Analysis in Architecture

Wednesday, 7 June 2000

9:40-10:40 Leonard K. Eaton
"Mathematics and Music in the Art Glass Windows of Frank Lloyd Wright"
10:50-11:50 Tess Jaray
"From the Studio to the City and Back Again"
12:00 - 1:00 Alessandra Capanna
"Conoids and Hyperbolic Paraboloids in Le Corbusier's Philips Pavilion"
 1:00 - 1:30  Closing Remarks

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