This is the only book dedicated to the Geometry of Polycentric Ovals. It includes problem
solving constructions and mathematical formulas. For anyone interested in drawing or
recognizing an oval this book gives all the necessary construction and calculation tools. More
than 30 basic construction problems are solved with references to Geogebra animation videos
plus the solution to the Frame Problem and solutions to the Stadium Problem. A chapter
(co-written with Margherita Caputo) is dedicated to totally new hypotheses on the project of
Borromini's oval dome of the church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane in Rome. Another one
presents the case study of the Colosseum as an example of ovals with eight centres. The book is
unique and new in its kind: original contributions add up to about 60% of the whole book the
rest being taken from published literature (and mostly from other work by the same author). The
primary audience is: architects graphic designers industrial designers architecture
historians civil engineers moreover the systematic way in which the book is organised could
make it a companion to a textbook on descriptive geometry or on CAD.
