000			02116 a2200145 4500
020			_a9780471122616
082			_a721.042 _bGAB
100			_aGabriel, J. Francois Ed.
245			_aBeyond the cube _bthe architecture of space frames and polyhedra
260			_aNew York _bJohn Wiley & Sons _c1997
300			_axiv,510p.
520			_aContents PREFACE vii J. Francois Gabriel, Syracuse University Acknowledgments xiii 1 Polyhedra, from Pythagoras to Alexander Graham Bell 1 Jos Tomlow, Hochschule Zittau/G'drlitz, Germany 2 Polyhedrality in the Architecture of Brace Goff 35 Rollie Ristine 3 Louis Kahn and Space Frames 127 Irene E. Ayad 4 Buckminster Fuller and the Relevant Pattern 147 Arthur L. Loeb, Harvard University 5 Philip Johnson's Crystal Cathedral and the tj Rhetoric of Its Free-Form Polyhedral Structure 161 Lawrence Davis, Syracuse University 6 Tetrahedral Purity: The Javits Center 189 Matthys Levy 7 Double Curvature Space Frames Supported on Four Points: Design and Construction of the International Plaza of Portopia'81 211 Masao Saitoh, Nihon University 8 Deconstruction of the Cube 229 Arthur L. Loeb, Harvard University 9 The Polyhedral World 243 Pieter Huybers, Delft University of Technology 10 Proportion and Symbolism in Polyhedra 281 Rene Motro, Universite de Montpellier 11 The Structural Morphology of Basic Polyhedra 301 Ture Wester, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts 12 Computer Aided Processing of Polyhedric Configurations 343 Hoshyar Nooshin, with P. L. Disney and O. C. Champion, 3 University of Surrey 13 Tensegrity: Theory and Application ........... 385 Ariel Hanaor, National Building Research Institute, Israel 14 Visual Morphology of Space Labyrinths: A Source for Architecture and Design 409 ? Haresh Lalvani, Pratt Institute 15 Quasicrystal Architecture: The Space of Experience 427 Tony Robbin 16 Are Space Frames Habitable? 439 J. Francois Gabriel, Syracuse University Contributors 495 Index 499
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