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Saturday, 19 June 2004
Morning Session: "Welcome to Nexus 2004 in Mexico City"

9:00-10:00 Registration of conference participants
10:00-10:40 Inauguration of the conference
Welcoming Comments

 11:00-12:00
Invited Speaker: Kivi Sotamaa
Driven by the Sublime

  12:00-13:00
Invited Speaker: Hernán Díaz Alonso
Topologies of Beauty: From the Ugly to the Horrific
(co-authored with Florencia Pita)

 13:00-14:00
 Conference Lunch

 14:00-15:00
 Book Review Session
Saturday, 19 June 2004 Afternoon Session:
"Pre-hispanic and Contempory Hispanic architecture"

15:50-16:30 Mark Reynolds
A New Geometric Analysis of the Plan of the Teotihuacan Complex in Mexico

 16:30-17:00
Break

  17:00-17:40
Gerardo Burkle-Elizondo , Nicoletta Sala and
Ricardo Valdéz-Cepeda

 Geometric and Complex Analysis of Maya Architecture: Some Examples

 17:50-18:30
Rafael Ramirez and Alfonso Ramirez
Curves of Clay: Mexican Vaults and Domes

Sunday, 20 June 2004
Excursion to Teotihuacan and Mexico City

8:00-9:00 Travel to Teotihuacan

 9:00-10:00
Explanation of the site

 10:00-12:00
Site visit
12:00-13:00 Technical Explanation of Teotihuacan
13:00-15:00 Lunch

  15:00-16:00
Travel to Downtown Mexico City

  16:00-18:00
Tour of Mexico City

 18:00-19:00
Return to Hotel

Monday, 21 June 2004 Morning Session:
"Non-Western architecture and mathematics"

9:00-10:00 Invited Speaker: Mark Burry
10:10-10:50 Yvonne Dold-Samplonius and Silvia L. Harmsen
Muqarnas: Construction and Reconstruction

 10:50-11:10
Break
 11:10-11:50 Izumi Kuroishi
Artisan's Mathematics in Japanese Historical Architecture
12:00-12:40 Moussa Muhammad
Gulzar Haider
Explicit and Implicit Geometric Orders in Mamluk Floors: Secrets of the Sultan Hassan Floor in Cairo
13:00-14:00 Conference Lunch

 14:00-15:00
Book Review Session

Monday, 21 June 2004 Afternoon Session:
"Technology in architecture and mathematics"

15:00-15:40 Javier Barrallo
Mathematics And Structural Repair Of Gothic Structures
15:50-16:30 Michael Bispham
The Rod Method: Traditional Numberless Design And Layout

16:30-17:00
Break

17:00-17:40
Carol Hermann
Architecture's Influence on Systems Engineering

Tuesday, 22 June 2004 Morning Session
Excursion to Santa Fé

8:00-9:30 Travel to Santa Fé campus
9:30-12:30 Site visit (Santa Fé and Business District)

 12:30-13:00
Return to Santa Fé campus
13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00
 Book Review Session

Tuesday, 22 June 2004 Afternoon Session
"General Architecture and Mathematics"

15:00-15:40 Radoslav Zuk
From Renaissance Musical Proportions to Polytonality in Twentieth Century Architecture

 15:50-16:30
Eugenia Victoria Ellis
Geomantic (Re)Creation: Magic Squares And Claude Bragdon's Theosophic Architecture

17:00
Return to Hotel

Wednesday, 23 June 2004 Morning Session
"Western architecture and mathematics"

9:00-10:00 Invited Speaker: Branko Mitrovic

 10:10-10:50
Maria Teresa Bartoli
The sequence of Fibonacci and the Palazzo dei Priori of Arnolfo da Cambio

10:50-11:10
Break

 11:10-11:50
Jin-Ho Park
Triangular Geometry in Rudolph Schindler's Packard House of 1924

 12:00-12:40
Closing Remarks
 13:00-14:00 Closing Lunch

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