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Geometry : understanding shapes and sizes / by Goldsmith, Mike,1962-author.(CARDINAL)420964; Jackson, Tom,1972-editor.(CARDINAL)332335;
The roots of geometry -- Circles and spheres -- Spirals -- The mathematics of beauty -- The shapes of perfection -- Secrets of the cone -- Euclid's revolution -- Eratosthenes measures the earth -- Archimedes applies geometry -- Triangles and geometry -- Three impossible geometric puzzles -- Tiling and tessellations -- Perspective -- Flat maps of a round world -- Filling space -- Geometry + algebra -- The geometry of architecture -- Prince Rupert's challenge -- Higher dimensions -- Topology -- Fitting circles into triangles -- Non-Euclidean geometry -- Crystals -- The four-color problem -- The roundness of rollers -- Knots -- The Poincaré conjecture -- The geometry of space and time -- Fractals -- Unknown geometry.Written to engage and enthuse young minds, the third volume in our series, Inside Mathematics: Geometry, introduces readers to the amazing people who figured out how shapes work and how they can be used to build spaces and study places we cannot go, like the beginning of the Universe.Reading age 12-15 years
Subjects: Geometry.; Mathematics.;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 11
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The judicious eye : architecture against the other arts / by Rykwert, Joseph,1926-(CARDINAL)507275;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-480) and index.
Subjects: Architectural design.; Public spaces.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Before América : original sources in modern culture / by Gutiérrez Viñuales, Rodrigo,editor.(CARDINAL)900067; Fontán del Junco, Manuel,1963-editor.(CARDINAL)856253; Toledo Gutiérrez, María.editor.(CARDINAL)856252; Gutiérrez Viñuales, Rodrigo,writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)900067; Sorroche Cuerva, Miguel Ángel,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)900068; Ruiz Romero, Zara,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)900069; Bedoya H., María Elena(Bedoya Hidalgo),writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)900070; Schávelzon, Daniel,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)900071; Noelle, Louise,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)900072; Godoy, Patrícia Bueno,writer of supplementary textual content.; Gutiérrez Viñuales, Rodrigo,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)900067; Kusunoki, Ricardo,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)900074; Villegas Torres, Fernando,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)900075; Clayton, Michelle,1974-writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)900076; Maire, José Luis,writer of supplementary textual content.; Ledesma, Diana Cuéllar,writer of supplementary textual content.; Usandizaga, Helena,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)900077; Bellido Gant, Ma. Luisa,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)900078; Díaz, Alejandro,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)900079; Martí, Marta Anton,writer of supplementary textual content.; Bonet, Juan Manuel,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)196472; Rith-Magni, Isabel,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)900080; Greet, Michele,1970-writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)494530; Querejazu, Pedro,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)900081; Medina, Alvaro,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)900082; Toledo Gutiérrez, María,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)856252; Nordenflycht Concha, José de,1970-writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)900083; Santos, Renata Ribeiro dos,writer of supplementary textual content.; Cutuli, Gracia,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)900084; Pérez d'Ors, Pablo,1979-writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)787436; Castrillón Vizcarra, Alfonso,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)900085; Buntinx, Gustavo,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)900086; Rodríguez Mortellaro, Itzel A.,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)632491; Rozental, Sandra,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)900087; Paternosto, César,1931-writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)900088; Bovisio, María Alba,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)900089; Gutiérrez, Ramón,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)900090; Escobar, Ticio,1947-writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)279052; Swartz, David(Translator),translator.; Riestra, Nuria Rodriguez,translator.; Van Houtven, Andrea,translator.; Stockman, Russell,translator.(CARDINAL)307688; Distributed Art Publishers,distributor.(CARDINAL)784868; Ediciones La Bahía,publisher.; Fundación Juan March,issuing body,host institution.(CARDINAL)148229; Museo Kaluz (Mexico City, Mexico),publisher.(CARDINAL)900091;
Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 612-617) and index."This book is the result of a long process dating back to before Europeans christened an entire continent 'America': the reinterpretation, in modern and contemporary culture, of the forms and meanings of ancient civilizations and Indigenous cultures, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. With essays by some thirty international experts, its pages and its more than eight hundred illustrations take us back to the late eighteenth century and across the nineteenth century through scientific expeditions, archaeological discoveries, the formation of collections, and the subsequent development of historicist architecture. The book then looks at Americanist identity, which became more pronounced in the early twentieth century as a result of the reinterpretation of pre-Columbian knowledge and languages-especially in schools of arts and crafts-that revolutionized graphic design, literature, theater, film, music, and fashion. And finally, turning to the inventions of 'ancestral' culture in the twentieth century-when new artists ventured to once again explore the American continent, collected their finds, and documented them in drawings and photographs-the journey of Before América: Original Sources in Modern Culture brings us back to the present day, revealing how the Amerindian paradigm persists around the world: in geometry and color, in the critical or ironic quoting of the past, in Indigenous-based postmodern architecture, in intentional kitsch, in conceptual refinement, and in the sophisticated revitalization of ancient arts and crafts, now full of new and fascinating sociopolitical and aesthetic meanings"--Catalog of an exhibition held at Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain, October 6, 2023 to March 10, 2024.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Art, Comparative; Art, Modern; Indigenous art; Indigenous arts; Vernacular architecture; Art, Latin American; Arts, Latin American; Arts, Modern;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Companion website.;
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The genesis and geometry of the labyrinth ; architecture, hidden language, myths, and rituals / by Conty, Patrick.(CARDINAL)672366;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-288) and index.The Gotland labyrinth -- The enigma -- The labyrinth is not a maze -- The trace of the ritual -- The equation and its solution -- The bound universe and the eternal return -- The woven myth -- The Malekula ritual and the story of Aeneas -- The living and the dead -- A puzzle of myths -- The Malekula Nahals -- The temple as a knot -- About knots -- The origin of language in Dogon myth -- The hidden language of nature -- The ball of thread and Ariadne's technique -- The geometric crossing -- Time -- Axis and center -- The Hopi labyrinths -- The concept of the maze -- Why a four-dimensional knot? -- The equivalence of samsara and nirvana -- Different aspects of reality -- The cord -- Labyrinths within labyrinths -- The image, the whole, and the changing aspect -- Gestalt -- The tennis ball and the path of the grandmother -- The book of Durrow : the reversal -- The labyrinth in painting -- A labyrinth practice -- Structuralism and contemplation -- Now what? -- Meaning and the mythic path -- The crossing of codes evokes space -- Physics, anthropology, and the continuous whole -- Circumambulation and revelation -- Cretan seals and the unique kind of whole.
Subjects: Labyrinths;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The little book of sacred geometry / by Carvel, Astrid,Author(DLC)nb2020002169;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-121).This accessible introduction to sacred geometry illuminates the beauty and power of nature and explains how we can draw on this mystical energy to enrich our everyday lives. Sacred geometry is founded on the belief that everything is connected through the shapes and symmetries that we see repeated in nature all around us, from snowflakes and shells to crystals and honeycombs. These beautiful patterns are part of the mystic architecture of the universe some even see them as the signature of a deity woven throughout creation. This beginner's guide clearly explains what sacred geometry is and how it manifests in the natural world. Then, by learning how to harness the power of sacred shapes, you can find healing, energy, peace and oneness with the universe. The Little Book of Sacred Geometry will help you appreciate the cosmic significance of these principles and grasp fascinating insights such as: *How the study of sacred geometry has developed since ancient times *What the numerous sacred shapes look like *What key concepts, such as the golden ratio, refer to *How sacred geometrical practices can be applied in your life.
Subjects: Geometry; Geometry.; Geometry;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Cool structures : creative activities that make math & science fun for kids! / by Hanson, Anders,1980-(CARDINAL)466840; Mann, Elissa,1990-(CARDINAL)399165;
Age 8-12.Cool Structures : Bits and Pieces Put Together -- Pyramids : Ancient Geometry -- Project 1: Build a Pyramid -- Bridges : Get Over It! -- Project 2: Build a Bridge -- Sling It : Structures in Action! -- Project 3: Build a Catapult -- Towers : Building High -- Project 4: Spaghetti Tower Challenge -- Math Terms -- Glossary -- Web Sites.630LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Building; Architecture; Geometry; Mathematical recreations; Scientific recreations; Creative activities and seat work;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Lee Kelly / by Guenther, Bruce.(CARDINAL)173593; Kelly, Lee,1932-(CARDINAL)301358; Portland Art Museum (Or.)(CARDINAL)141989;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-129).As a sculptor and role model to aspiring young artists, Lee Kelly has played a significant role in creating the Northwest regional art scene. This book documents his sixty year career. His work has traversed the aesthetic developments of gestural abstraction, minimalism, and post-modernism, while his vocabulary has always retained a core focus on the balance and grace of architectural geometry and a craftsman's respect and understanding of the materials at hand. His work is both an art of contemplation and active experience. The text explores Kelly's impact on the art of the Northwest, his public art projects, and places his work in relation to post-World War II American sculpture.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Kelly, Lee, 1932-; Outdoor sculpture;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The king of infinite space : Euclid and his Elements / by Berlinski, David,1942-(CARDINAL)522976;
Geometry defines the world around us, helping us make sense of everything from architecture to military science to fashion. Euclid's Elements is arguably the most influential book in the history of mathematics. Berlinski provides a concise homage to this elusive mathematician and his staggering achievements, and shows that, for centuries, scientists and thinkers have relied on Euclid's axiomatic system, a method of proof still taught in classrooms around the world.
Subjects: Euclid.; Euclid.; Geometry; Mathematics, Greek.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 10
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Florence and Baghdad : Renaissance art and Arab science / by Belting, Hans.(CARDINAL)161969;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Describing a Culture: Blickwechsel (Shifting Focus / Exchanging Glances) -- Pt.1. Perspective as a Question of Images: Paths between East and West -- What Is a Symbolic Form? -- Arab Mathematics and Western Art -- Geometry and Decorative Art: The Arabesque -- The Globalization of Perspective -- Blickwechsel: Orhan Pamuk and Perspective as a "Betrayal" -- Pt.2. The Taming of the Eye: Criticism of Seeing in Islam -- Religion and the Prohibition of Images -- Images as a Betrayal of the Living Creation -- The Koran as Scripture and Script -- Under the Gaze of Allah: Pictures as Narrative -- Blickwechsel: Pictures with a Living Gaze -- Pt.3. Alhazen's Measurement of Light and the Arab Invention of the Camera Obscura -- Alhazen's Book of Optics, the Perspectiva -- Distance from Ancient Visual Culture -- Pathways of Light and Properties of Objects -- Mathematics and Geometry in Islamic Art -- Blickwechsel: Kepler Rediscovers the Camera Obscura -- Pt.4. Perception and Knowledge: A Theory of Vision Becomes a Theory of Pictures -- Scholasticism and the Conflict over Perception and Epistemology -- Before Perspective: The Gaze in Giotto's Painting -- Pelacani's Invention of Mathematical Space -- Ghiberti's Commentaries and Piero's Mathematical Art -- Blickwechsel: Alhazen or Euclid? The Option for Vitruvius -- Pt.5. Brunelleschi Measures the Glaze: Mathematical Perspective and Theater -- Two Inventors in Florence -- Physical Space: The Architecture of the Gaze -- "Prospects" on the Stage -- Panoramas in Urbino -- Blickwechsel: The Geometry of the Muqarnas -- Pt.6. The Subject in the Picture: Perspective as a Symbolic Form -- Stealing an Emblem: The Eye as Representative of the Gaze -- Nicholas of Cusa and the Sovereignty of God's Gaze -- The Subject as New Narcissus -- The Horizon and the View through aWindow -- Blickwechsel: The Mashrabiyya as a Symbolic Form -- Conclusion: Comparing the Gaze in Different Cultures
Subjects: Aesthetics, Comparative.; Art, Renaissance; Optics; Perspective;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The Möbius strip : Dr. August Möbius's marvelous band in mathematics, games, literature, art, technology, and cosmology / by Pickover, Clifford A.(CARDINAL)329147;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-237) and index.Möbius limericks to get you in the mood -- Introduction -- Möbius magicians -- Knots, civilization, autism, and the collapse of sidedness -- A brief history of Möbius the man -- Technology, toys, molecules, and patents -- Strange adventures in topology and beyond -- Cosmos, reality, transcendence -- Games, mazes, art, music, and architecture -- Literature and movies -- A few final words -- Solutions -- References and appendix -- Readings by chapter -- About the author.
Subjects: Möbius, August Ferdinand, 1790-1868.; Conformal geometry.; Mathematics;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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