We grasp and transform the world through interplays of quantification
and qualification. The cross pollination of geometric and literary
figures is deeply embedded in our cognitive habits, instruments of
inquiry and the constructed environment. Through time, thought has
reflected on the visible processes and products of material craft to
explain and train the invisible workings of the mind. Recursively,
material craft embodies a tradition of splitting ideas into categorical
parts and compositional units for reassembly. Although the mathematical
and verbal arts are often placed in contrast, human inventions manifest
a weave of alphanumerics. Mythic parables, geometric proofs, memory
arts, poems, algorithms, buildings and cities emerge from the
intercourse of measure and explication. This special issue of the Nexus
Network Journal considers architectonic examples of past, present and
potential geometries of rhetoric.