Symmetry: Culture and Science

This volume presents a selection of research papers published over the last three decades in the Symmetry journal. It is edited in honor of Gyuri Darvas, the founder, and former editor-in-chief of the journal, commemorating his thirty years of service to the journal and the symmetry community.

The contributions are written by authorities in their field and give a multifaceted view into the interdisciplinary theme of symmetry, a discipline that attracts experts from the arts, philosophy, and science. The community of the International Symmetry Association has long waited for a summary and selection from the writings of the most commemorated researchers of the field. This volume fulfills this wish and will appeal to a wide readership from artists and architects through philosophers and historians of science to scientists in various disciplines.

Provides a comprehensive review of the transdisciplinary field symmetry

Offers a perspective on symmetry, as common theme in science and art

Includes contributions from experts in their field

Auteur

Vilmos Katona is an architect, architectural theorist and historian applying contemporary studies on symmetry and phenomenology to develop a better understanding of the built environment, in which symmetry and patterns play a key role.

Born in Toronto, Canada, graduated in Hungary at the Faculty of Architecture of Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE), where he also received his Ph.D. in 2015. He wrote his dissertation about the contemporary architecture of European Catholic communities. From 2011 to 2018, he held lectures on architectural theory and history in various universities (BUTE, University of West Hungary, Széchenyi University). Since 2018, he has worked as an associate professor at the Institute of Architecture, University of Pécs.

He is also active in the fields of architectural and art exhibitions either as a curator or an exhibitor (SAM Basel, Abstract Project Paris, FUGA Budapest, MODEM Debrecen). He is a member of the public body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and co-founder of Urbanism at Borders Global Research Group, established at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, 2017, which focuses on global urban issues regarding migration, post-traumatic architecture, resilient cities and urban regeneration. He is a member of the Executive Editors' Board and, since 2021, elected editor-in-chief of Symmetry, the journal of the International Symmetry Association. In addition, he is a member of the Editorial Board of the open access Journal of Architecture and Urbanis m a t VGTU and the Advisory Board of Metszet at Artifex Publishing Ltd. Most of his papers focus on the architecture of religious communities, community-based planning, and the phenomenology of place. His books have earned grants from the Prime Minister's Office since 2019, and in 2020, he was awarded the Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Arts.

Contenu
Mapping permutations of geometric form.- Circles, spheres and atoms.- Rethinking polyhedra: It's all about transformation.- Measuring symmetry.- Chirality as a crossroad of chemistry, physics and biology.- Symmetries, generalized numbers and harmonic laws in matrix genetics.- A studio for spatial order.- Symmetry in periodic and in quasiperiodic crystals.- The prehistoric roots of a human concept of symmetry.- The grammar of ornament.- Symmetry gives meaning to architecture.- Symmetry in phyllotaxis.- Physical aspects of order in visual communication.- Symmetry in philosophy and history of science.- Through the looking glass.- Symmetry as a universal pattern.- Exotic triangular tilings of the plane A model for new aperiodic crystals?.- Making modules for mosaic designs.- Laws of symmetry breaking.- The birth of the tunnel diode and the semiconductor superlattice.- Symmetry principles in Einstein's theory of relativity.- Varieties of Symmetry.- Symmetry in synchronous time and information in asynchronous time.- Geometry and natural patterns in the 2002 bawag edition book.- Surface structure and deep structure of the symmetry phenomenon.- The geometric stability of highly symmetric tensegrity structures.- Models of Miura Ori and Tachi Miura Polyhedron.- Memoirs of a polyhedronist.- Symmetric and nonsymmetric projections of 4space objects.- Symmetry as the leitmotif at the fundamental level in the twentieth century physics.- Symmetrical projections of the highdimensional regular polytopes.