Offering imaginative insight into the area where mathematics and the arts meet, this book may be used as a practical tool by the architect, designer or scientist who has to deal with such problems as defining space, distributing patterns, packing and stacking, and communication links.
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Review
A most striking design source book . . . develops more deeply and expansively the early solid geometry explored by Buckminster Fuller, and makes virtually a new primer in mathematical and to some extent philosophical structuring (and incidentally discovers a new polyhedral shape). -- The Times [London]
Keith Critchlow has one of the century's rare conceptual minds. -- Buckminster Fuller
Universal in its scope. . .as inspiring as the 'pattern' books of the past. -- Interior Design
About the Author
Keith Critchlow is Director of Research and Director of Visual Islamic and Traditional Arts at the Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture.
Offering imaginative insight into the area where mathematics and the arts meet, this book may be used as a practical tool by the architect, designer or scientist who has to deal with such problems as defining space, distributing patterns, packing and stacking, and communication links.
**
Review
A most striking design source book . . . develops more deeply and expansively the early solid geometry explored by Buckminster Fuller, and makes virtually a new primer in mathematical and to some extent philosophical structuring (and incidentally discovers a new polyhedral shape). -- The Times [London]
Keith Critchlow has one of the century's rare conceptual minds. -- Buckminster Fuller
Universal in its scope. . .as inspiring as the 'pattern' books of the past. -- Interior Design
About the Author
Keith Critchlow is Director of Research and Director of Visual Islamic and Traditional Arts at the Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture.