Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque

ARCHITEC TURE & GEOMETRY George L. Hersey J. Diego Quezada M. Adรกn Daza Alvear.

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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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