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.
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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.