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Order in Space: A Design Source Book (A Studio Book)
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Product Description
Offering imaginative insight into the area where mathematics and the arts meet, this classic book can be used as a practical tool by architects, designers, or scientists who have to deal with problems such as space defining, distribution patterns, space-filling properties, packing and stacking, economy grids, and communication linkages. The author provides a systematic analysis of the space-defining geometries that are relevant to solving design problems. Through clear, imaginative drawings, diagrams, and charts, he presents the mathematical facts and formulas that bear on the definition and understanding of space.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2024083 in Books
- Published on: 1970-09-18
- Original language: English
- Binding: Plastic Comb
- 120 pages
Editorial Reviews
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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.
Customer Reviews
A Highly Important Book
That this book is back in print is a gift to the world. It's a completely thorough and wonderful trip through various 2d and 3d geometries and patterns. The drawings can be appreciated just on an aesthetic level, or can be delved into deeply. A rare book.
An important Book
This was one of the books that first showed many people the interrelationships between the Platonic and Archimedian solids. Critchlow studied under Buckminster Fuller and many of Bucky's perceptions find their way in to these pages. Not without a few small errors here and there but overall a groundbreaking book of its day and still an essential volume on the shelf of anyone who works structurally in 3-d. Highly recommended.
