RECIPROCAL FRAME

BIAGIO DI CARLO

STRUTTURE E SCIENZA DEL DESIGN

WORKSHOP  A  OAXACA (Messico)10-14 OTTOBRE 2011

Organizzazione generale:  Arch. Salvatore D’Auria e 

Arch.  Otniel Altamirano della Facolta’ di Architettura di Oaxaca

Si ringrazia il Preside della facolta’, prof. Arch. Ignacio Santiago Leon per la disponibilita’ e la sensibilita’ verso argomenti  di sperimentazione creativa e scienza del design.

Biagio Di Carlo is an architect as well as a graphic designer and a musician. He received his degree in Architectural studies with honors in 1976 from the University of Architecture of Pescara; his thesis was published. His thesis advisors were Eduardo Vittoria, together with Giovanni Guazzo and Augusto Vitale.

He was teaching at the Art Institute of Pescara, and often collaborates with the architectural faculties of Pescara and Ascoli, by giving lectures, lessons and seminars in synergetic geometry, geodesic domes, tensegrities, quasi crystals and four dimensional polytopes.

He is the author of three self-published books: CUPOLE GEODETICHE, POLIEDRI and STRUTTURE TENSEGRALI, and has published articles in journals such as ‘BIOARCHITETTURA’, ‘L’ARCHITETTURA NATURALE’ and ‘DOME’ (Wheat Ridge, CO) .

During 2008, the article 'The wooden roofs of Leonardo and the new structural research'  is published on the magazine  ‘Nexus Network Journal’ , Vol. 10,1 Williams, Kim Ed.

A Birkhäuser book .

About this book 
The quintessential Renaissance Man, Leonardo da Vinci was well aware of the fundamental importance of mathematics for architecture. This issue of the Nexus Network Journal examines Leonardo’s knowledge of theoretical mathematics, explores how he used concepts of geometry in his designs for architectural projects, and reports on a real-life construction project using Leonardo’s principles.

Authors include Sylvie Duvernoy, Kim Williams, Rinus Roelofs, Biagio Di Carlo, Mark Reynolds, João Pedro Xavier, Vesna Petresin, Christopher Glass, and Jane Burry. To complete the issue Rachel Fletcher writes her Geometer’s Angle column on "Dynamic Symmetry", Michael Ostwald reviews A Theory of General Ethics by Warwick Fox, Sarah Clough Edwards reviews Inigo Jones and the Classical Tradition by Christy Anderson, and Sylvie Duvernoy reviews Architecture and Mathematics in Ancient Egypt by Corinna Rossi.

Among his interests are architecture, molecular and synergetic geometry, graphic arts and cartoon illustrations, Latin jazz, song writing and Brazilian music. More information about his activities is available on his website: http://www.biagiodicarlo.com.

This bamboo dome  comes from  my article 'The wooden roofs of Leonardo and the new structural research' published  in Nexus Network Journal , Vol. 10,1 Williams, Kim (Ed.) 2008, 206 p. Birkhäuser.

http://www.biagiodicarlo.com