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Faculty of Architecture
Stradone S. Agostino, 37
16123 Genova ITALY
Conference Room: Aula Benvenuto
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Wednesday, 7 June 2006
Morning Session
Kim Williams, coordinator

9:00-10:00 Registration of conference participants
Coffee reception
10:00-10:30 Inauguration of the conference
Welcoming Comments

 10:40-11:10
Clara Silvia Roero
Relationships between History of Mathematics and History of Art

  11:20-11:50
Mark Wilson Jones
Ancient Architecture and Mathematics:
Methodology and a modular interpretation of the Doric temple

 12:00-12:30
Rudolf Stichel and Helge Svenshon
Systems of Monads' as Design Principle in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul: Neo-Platonic Mathematics in the Architecture of Late Antiquity

 12:30-13:00
 Conference Lunch

Wednesday, 7 June 2006
Afternoon Session
Carol Martin Watts, coordinator

15:00-15:30 Sylvie Duvernoy and Paul Rosin
The Compass, the Ruler and the Computer

 15:40-16:10
Benamy Turkienicz and Rosirene Mayer
Oscar Niemeyer's Curved Lines: Few Words, Many Sentences

  16:15-16:45
Coffee Break

 16:50-17:20
Graham Pont
Inauguration: Ritual Planning in Ancient Greece and Italy
 17:30-18:00 Discussion

Thursday, 8 June 2006
Morning Session
"The Computer and Ethics"
Sylvie Duvernoy, coordinator

9:00-9:30 Alessandra Capanna
BiOrganic design: A New Method for Architecture and the City
9:40-10:10 Arzu Gönenç Sorguç
The Role of Mathematics in the Design Process under the Influence of Computational and Information Technologies

 10:15-10:45
Coffee Break

  10:50-11:20
Michael Ostwald
Ethics and Geometry: Computational Transformations and the Curved Surface in Architecture

 11:30-12:00
Discussion

 12:30
Conference Lunch

Thursday, 8 June 2006
Afternoon Session
Donald J. Watts, coordinator

15:00-15:30 Tomás García-Salgado
Exploring Architectural Form in Perspective: A Fractal Hypercube-Building

 15:40-16:10
Richard Talbot
The Design and Perspective Construction of Uccello's Chalice: Why is the Chalice the Shape it is?

  16:15-16:45
Coffee Break

 16:50-17:20
Maria Zack
Are There Connections Between the Mathematical Thought and Architecture of Sir Christopher Wren?
 17:30-18:00 Elena Marchetti and Luisa Rossi Costa
What Geometries in Milan Cathedral?
 18:00-18:30 Discussion

Friday, 9 June 2006
Morning Session

"Between Mechanics and Architecture"
Associazione Edoardo Benevenuto
Patricia Radelet-De Grave, Coordinator

9:00-9:30 Presentation of the Associazione Edoardo Benevenuto
9:30-9:50 Patricia Radelet-De Grave
The beginnings of pre-stressed concrete

 9:55-10:15
Jean Dhombres
From the Geometry of Forms to Forms of Forces in the Treatises on Naval Architecture from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth century

 10:20-10:40
Massimo Corradi, Valentina Filemio and Lorenzo Fontana

Architettura e meccanica nelle costruzioni in terra cruda

  10:45-11:05
Santiago Huerta
Geometry and stability of oval domes

 11:05-11:30
Coffee Break

 11:30-11:50
Federico Foce
Milankovitch's Theorie der Druckkurven. Good mechanics for masonry architecture
 11:55-12:35 Christiane Kaiser and Karl-Eugen Kurrer
On the structural behaviour of the "Fleisch" bridge in Nuremberg (1596-1598)
  12:40-13:00 Discussion
  13:30  Conference Lunch

Friday, 9 June 2006
Afternoon Session

"Between Mechanics and Architecture"
Associazione Edoardo Benevenuto
Patricia Radelet-De Grave, Coordinator

15:10-15:30 Dirk Huylebrouck and Annie Van Maldeghem
Fitting curves and surfaces in architecture
15:30-15:50 Marco Giorgio Bevilacqua
Architecture, Mathematics and Urban Design in the Conception of the Bastion in the Sixteenth Century

 15:55-16:15
Massimo Corradi
L'Arte della guerra, la teoria delle fortificazioni e la Mécanique des remblais et des déblais nei secoli XVI-XVIII

 16:20-16:40
Coffee Break

  16:45-17:10
Dirk Van de Vijver
Tentare licet. The Theresian Academy question on the theory of beams of 1783

 17:15-17:35
Biagio Di Carlo
La Casa Geodetica

 17:40-18:00
Bruna Gaino
Reciprocal Figures
 18:00-18:30 Closing remarks 

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