Oval Domes: History, Geometry and Mechanics [PDF]
, 2007 An oval dome may be defined as a dome whose plan or profile (or both) has an oval form. The word Aoval@ comes from the latin Aovum@, egg. Then, an oval dome has an egg-shaped geometry.
A. Bachot +75 more
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Marvell’s Re-imagining of Anthropocentric Architecture in “Upon Appleton House”
Marvell Studies, 2016 Marvell initiates the dynastic mythology that he fashions around Sir Thomas Fairfax in Upon Appleton House by re-imagining the concept widely known to early modern readers from Vitruvius’s De Architectura.
Derek Hirst
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Campamentos romanos en España a través de los textos clásicos
Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua, 1993 El análisis de los textos clásicos es una fuente de extraordinaria importancia para el conocimiento de la localización y las características constructivas de los campamentos romanos.
Ángel Morillo Cerdán
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Technical Challenges in the Construction of Gothic Vaults: The Gothic Theory of Structural Design [PDF]
, 2012 The construction of a Gothic vault implied the solution of several technical challenges. The literature on Gothic vault construction is quite large and its growth continues steadily.
Huerta Fernández, Santiago
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Awakening the architectural experience: how to teach the dialogical knowledge of architects [PDF]
, 2016 Learning processes in architecture have always been a complex and difficult research field; the specific qualities of architectural education from childhood to adulthood are far from to be really known.
Beltran Borràs, Júlia +3 more
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Marine concrete technology in Vitruvius’s De Architectura Libri Decem [PDF]
Urbanism. Arhitectura. ConstructiiVitruvius’s De Architectura Libri Decem is a treatise on architecture dating to the onset of the Pax Romana. It covers the design and practice to erect private and public buildings including marine structures.
Lino Bianco
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Architectural turn. Il filosofo e le sfide del progetto
Philosophy Kitchen, 2013 I rapporti diretti tra il filosofo e l’architetto sono storicamente molto più rari di quanto le tendenze contemporanee possano far credere. A differenza dell’interesse destatogli dal principe, si pensi ai burrascosi trascorsi tra Platone e Dionisio ...
Alberto Giustiniano
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Leon Battista Alberti and the Concept of Lineament [PDF]
, 2011 A core idea in the architectural theory of Leon Battista Alberti, as expressed in the De re aedificatoria, is the distinction between “lineament,” the line in the mind of the architect, and “matter,” the material presence of the building.
Hendrix, John S
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Vitruvius and Borromeus in the Chancel of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela : proportion and Symmetry according to Canon José de Vega y Verdugo (1656-1657) [PDF]
, 2011 En el archivo de la catedral de Santiago de Compostela, se conserva un memorial dirigido al cabildo, hoy conocido como Memoria sobre las Obras de la Catedral de Santiago, escrito entre 1656 y 1657 por el entonces joven canónigo José de Vega y Verdugo ...
Taín Guzmán, Miguel
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