ARCHITEC TURE & GEOMETRY George L. Hersey J. Diego Quezada M. Adรกn Daza Alvear. Abdel Xochipiltecatl. domingo 10 de febrero de 2013
in the Age of Baroque
LIFE Born in august/30th/1927 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Died in
october/23th/2007. American arthistorian. He studied American Art / History of Architecture and Culture. International expert know by his work with architecture & sculpture in the italian
renaissance. Also bye his stydies of the Europian Art in the XIX century. Professor at the YALE university. domingo 10 de febrero de 2013
CONCEPT
ONE.
• NOBLER SHAPES
• RATIONAL NUMBERS are those that can be express as a fraction and get a finite number of decimals. Producing divine and exact proportion.
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Shapes.
CONCEPT
TWO.
• FROZEN MUSIC is predicated on the ways in which heaven-derived musical sounds, and music itself, can be transleted into visual forms. The geometry can be read musically, making melodies.
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intervals from the front elevation of Bernini’s Baldacchino
intervals from the side elevation of Bernini’s Baldacchino
the tune of Bernini’s Baldacchino
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CONCEPT
THREE.
• LIGHT OF UNSEEN WORLDS fastens on optics, the science of light. Here again heaven, the main source of earthly ligth, is the key. Ligth-projection, conic sections, and projective geometry were studied as heavenly emanations
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directrix focus
axis
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CONCEPT
FOUR.
• CUBICES RATIONES deals with de baroque mystique of the cube. The cube was considered the parent —literally—of all other forms.
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CONCEPT
FIVE.
• THE GOLDEN SECTION SECUENCE which is the relationship of 1:1.618.
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CONCEPT
SIX.
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SYM ETRY
• SYMETRY this changed the way baroque architects thougth about crucial procedures in their design tecniques, —among them mirror reflection, repetition, invertion, lattices, and rotation.
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• REFLECTIVE SYMETRY bilateral reflection. a central miror axis. left-hand and righthand sides or hedrons.
ABCD
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DCBA
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• TRANSLATORY SYMETRY it doesn’t mirror itself as reflective symetry, instead; it repeat itself creating a patern.
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• GLIDE SYMETRY this third type combines the last two types.
Reflective S.
Traslatory S.
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• WALLPAPER SYMETRY is a variation of tiling. A repetition in all four cordenades.
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• SPIRAL SYMETRY or rotational, is not only os spirals and wheels but of circles, globes, and many regular polygons and polyhedrons. domingo 10 de febrero de 2013
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CONCEPT
SEVEN.
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