A look at scientific/mathematical developments of the 1600's and 1700's helps place the Central European Baroque church in context: Desargues, Bernoulli, Leibniz and Scieferenna, all mathematician or architect, all dealt with theories of synthesis and convergence. The effect of the new mathematical ideas were on architecture was a gradual transformation of space from pure, static and isolated to composite, dynamic and interpenetrating. Architects used geometrical methods as plan generators. Transformational operations were of utmost …showed first 75 words of 2923 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2923 total…at the sciences drift apart and then return to each other a later time to re- orient the way a building should be designed. Be it as a symmetrical form or as an abstract piece of art, the bottom line is that this geometrical or mathematical essence must exist- especially in today's buildings not only visually, to support the eye's need for balance, but also structurally, to serve a better use in housing our needs.