Geometry of the Sun: Guarino Guarini and the Cosmology of San Lorenzo - Noé Badillo
Noé Badillo is an artist and author, who completed his dissertation on Italian architecture in 2021.
GENRE: History and theory of architecture
Blurb:
The baroque architect, priest, and polymath, Guarino Guarini (1624–1683), designed seventeen architectural works and wrote ten treatises on a multitude of subjects, including architecture, mathematics and astronomy. Guarini's treatise on architecture connects the art of building (edificare) to the sun (orologia, gnomonica), and to solar mechanics (macchinaria). The Church of San Lorenzo in Turin (1668–1687) is an elegant expression of these principles in built form.
