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Among the salient features of the architecture of Louis I. Kahn, one recognizes the ability to reconcile the aesthetics of Modernism with monumentality and one of the elements used to implement this programmatic attitude is Geometry. In this regard, we cite the projects for the Trenton Bath House (1955–1956) and the unrealized Philadelphia City...

I comuni fondamenti proiettivi di prospettiva e anamorfosi come fonte di riflessione del pensiero artistico e scientifico.

Le 'Primizie' Gnomoniche di Athanasius Kircher (1635) e la loro influenza nell'arte e nella scienza del Seicento.

The text describes an activity carried out in the teaching of the course Representation Methodologies for the Project focused on expanding the concept of accessibility.

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I fondamenti proiettivi per la realizzazione di diverse tipologie di meridiane e orologi solari con la descrizione di alcuni esemplari dalle rilevanti valenze artistiche e scientifiche.

The monographic exhibition which Genoa dedicated to Luca Cambiaso in 2007 opened with the famous Self-portrait with the portrait of his Father Gio-vanni (ca. 1570), where the figure in natural size of Luca can be seen in a room in penumbra, in front of the painting he is making. The personages depicted present gestures, positions and attitudes...

The present study investigates the history, significance, and depiction of a polyhedron painted in the Room of Leda, as part of the decorative plan of Palazzo Balbi Senarega in Genoa, Italy, 1655. The illusory golden oval vault is the main element in the Room of Leda, painted by Valerio Castello, with quadratura by Andrea Seghizzi. It...

Il presente contributo esplora esempi di impiego dello specchio nel linguaggio contemporaneo della rappresentazione dello spazio, nei quali si evidenzia come la complessità degli effetti speculari risulti fortemente correlata al ruolo percettivo dell'osservatore e alla sua relazione con lo specchio e il soggetto. Si considerano alcuni progetti...

This article presents an activity carried out in a course on representation in a master's degree in architecture, which aims to train students in the practice and theory of geometric transformation for the production of shapes, using a case study from contemporary architectural design: the Folies of the Parc de la Villette.