Finding San Carlino

The church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, also called San Carlino, is an architectural artefact that continues to attract numerous hypotheses and geometric analyses attempting to explain its form and meaning.

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Adil Mansure is an architect, writer and educator based in Toronto. He has taught studios and seminars based on his research at the University of Toronto, OCAD University and the University at Buffalo. He has practiced in New York, Toronto and Bombay. He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge, Yale University and Mumbai University.

Skender Luarasi is an architect and writer. Luarasi has presented his research in numerous ACSA conferences and has published in Haecceity, A+P Forum and other journals. He holds a Master of Architecture from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor's degree in architecture from Wentworth Institute of Technology. He is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Research and Development at Polis University in Tirana, Albania.

Inhalt
Introduction; 1: On Borromini's drawings and practical geometry; 2: Toggling through San Carlino; 3: The deep structure of San Carlino; 4: Architecture, geometry, and the sacred; 5: Baroque constructive geometry?; 6: From string to volume; 7: A part of the whole; 8: San Carlino as Surface; 9: The Xenophora Principle; Conclusion