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Author : György Doczi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780877731948
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Power of Limits written by György Doczi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1981 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Györgi Doczy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780887731938
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art and Architecture written by Györgi Doczy and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred S. Posamentier
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616144246
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)
Download or read book The Glorious Golden Ratio written by Alfred S. Posamentier and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What exactly is the Golden Ratio? How was it discovered? Where is it found? These questions and more are thoroughly explained in this engaging tour of one of mathematics' most interesting phenomena. The authors trace the appearance of the Golden Ratio throughout history, demonstrate a variety of ingenious techniques used to construct it, and illustrate the many surprising geometric figures in which the Golden Ratio is embedded. Requiring no more than an elementary knowledge of geometry and algebra, the authors give readers a new appreciation of the indispensable qualities and inherent beauty of mathematics.
Author : Rachel Fletcher
Publisher : George F Thompson Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781938086021
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Infinite Measure written by Rachel Fletcher and published by George F Thompson Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The desire for harmony is universal among all cultures. In Infinite Measure, we rediscover a fundamental starting point for designers of all ages: the simple act of drawing with a compass and a rule can sensitize the designer to the rich subtleties of spatial harmony, no matter how one ultimately chooses to express it.
Author : Gary B. Meisner
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 076036026X
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)
Download or read book The Golden Ratio written by Gary B. Meisner and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enlightening and gorgeously illustrated book explores the beauty and mystery of the divine proportion in art, architecture, nature, and beyond. From the pyramids of Giza, to quasicrystals, to the proportions of the human face, the golden ratio has an infinite capacity to generate shapes with exquisite properties. Author Gary Meisner has spent decades researching the subject, investigating and collaborating with people across the globe in dozens of professions and walks of life. In The Golden Ratio, he shares his enlightening journey. Exploring the long history of this fascinating number, as well as new insights into its power and potential applications, The Golden Ratio invites you to take a new look at this timeless topic.
Author : M. S. Howe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139461060
Total Pages : 3 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Hydrodynamics and Sound written by M. S. Howe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-23 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is ideal as a graduate textbook and reference for the advanced learner in fluid mechanics. The first four chapters are concerned with incompressible flow of homogeneous fluids. Chapters five and six deal with dispersive waves and acoustics. Learning is supported by numerous examples, end-of-chapter exercises, and illustrations.
Author : Glenn Parsons
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780191548239
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (482 download)
Download or read book Functional Beauty written by Glenn Parsons and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glenn Parsons and Allen Carlson offer an in-depth philosophical study of the relationship between function and aesthetic value, breaking with the philosophical tradition of seeing the two as separate. They begin by developing and defending, in a general way, the concept of Functional Beauty, exploring how the role of function in aesthetic appreciation has been treated by some notable thinkers in the history of aesthetics. They then consider the relationship to Functional Beauty of certain views in current aesthetic thought, especially what we call 'cognitively rich' approaches to the aesthetic appreciation of both art and nature. Turning to work on the nature of function in the philosophy of science, they argue that this line of enquiry can help solve certain philosophical problems that have been raised for the idea that knowledge of function plays an important role in aesthetic appreciation. Although philosophical discussions of aesthetic appreciation tend to focus largely and sometimes almost exclusively on artworks, the range of aesthetic appreciation is, of course, much larger. Not simply art, but also nature, architecture, and even more mundane, everyday things--cars, tools, clothing, furniture, and sports--are objects of frequent and enthusiastic aesthetic appreciation. Accordingly, in the second half of the book, Glen Parsons and Allen Carlson consider the place and importance of Functional Beauty in the aesthetic appreciation of a broad range of different kinds of things. The final chapters explore Functional Beauty in nature and the natural environment, in architecture and the built environment, in everyday artefacts, events, and activities, and finally in art and the artworld. In each case, Parsons and Carlson argue that Functional Beauty illuminates our aesthetic experiences and helps to address various theoretical issues raised by these different objects of appreciation.
Author : H. E. Huntley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486131874
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book The Divine Proportion written by H. E. Huntley and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussion ranges from theories of biological growth to intervals and tones in music, Pythagorean numerology, conic sections, Pascal's triangle, the Fibonnacci series, and much more. Excellent bridge between science and art. Features 58 figures.
Author : Priya Hemenway
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781402735226
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Divine Proportion written by Priya Hemenway and published by Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2005 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The number Phi, simply defined, is one plus the square root of five, all divided by two. But its myriad occurrences in art, nature, and science have been a source of speculation and wonder for thousands of years. Divine Proportion draws upon both religion and science to tell the story of Phi and to explore its manifestations in such diverse places as the structure of the inner ear, the spiral of a hurricane, the majesty of the Parthenon, and the elusive perfection of the Mona Lisa. A universal key to harmony, regeneration, and balance, Phi is at the heart of a tantalizing story begun on clay tablets in ancient Babylon, and which will continue to be written for centuries to come.
Author : John Fauvel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199298938
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (989 download)
Download or read book Music and Mathematics written by John Fauvel and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ancient Greek times, music has been seen as a mathematical art, and the relationship between mathematics and music has fascinated generations. This work links these two subjects in a manner that is suitable for students of both subjects, as well as the general reader with an interest in music.
Author : Tavis Leaf Glover
Publisher : Tavis Leaf Glover
ISBN 13 : 1733761225
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (337 download)
Download or read book Dynamic Symmetry written by Tavis Leaf Glover and published by Tavis Leaf Glover. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serious visual artists can now easily understand and apply the secret geometry that masters used to create remarkable art. Superior mathematical skills aren’t required because there are hundreds of excellent step-by-step diagrams to explain everything with simplicity. Learn how the ancient and modern masters used dynamic symmetry to promote unity, movement, rhythm, and strength. These qualities, along with many others, allowed their art to have visual clarity, impact, and stand the test of time. This is an essential book for painters, photographers, sculptors, and cinematographers that hold composition and design with a high priority. For far too long, artists have been stuck with the basic tools of artistic composition, like the rule of thirds and leading lines. Unfortunately, we’re incapable of reaching the master level if all we know are the basics. Powerful tools like dynamic symmetry and other composition techniques have been kept a secret from all of us. It’s time to learn of them, push past any plateau that stands in our way, and finally unlock our true potential!
Author : Steen Eiler Rasmussen
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262680028
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Experiencing Architecture, second edition written by Steen Eiler Rasmussen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1964-03-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic examination of superb design through the centuries. Widely regarded as a classic in the field, Experiencing Architecture explores the history and promise of good design. Generously illustrated with historical examples of designing excellence—ranging from teacups, riding boots, and golf balls to the villas of Palladio and the fish-feeding pavilion of Beijing's Winter Palace—Rasmussen's accessible guide invites us to appreciate architecture not only as a profession, but as an art that shapes everyday experience. In the past, Rasmussen argues, architecture was not just an individual pursuit, but a community undertaking. Dwellings were built with a natural feeling for place, materials and use, resulting in “a remarkably suitable comeliness.” While we cannot return to a former age, Rasmussen notes, we can still design spaces that are beautiful and useful by seeking to understand architecture as an art form that must be experienced. An understanding of good design comes not only from one's professional experience of architecture as an abstract, individual pursuit, but also from one's shared, everyday experience of architecture in real time—its particular use of light, color, shape, scale, texture, rhythm and sound. Experiencing Architecture reminds us of what good architectural design has accomplished over time, what it can accomplish still, and why it is worth pursuing. Wide-ranging and approachable, it is for anyone who has ever wondered “what instrument the architect plays on.”
Author : Jay Hambidge
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486140253
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book The Elements of Dynamic Symmetry written by Jay Hambidge and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is design intuitive or is it consciously and methodically worked out? Are there basic rules governing design that, when learned, will facilitate the creative process? These questions have been asked by artists, art historians, and art critics throughout the ages. Convinced that design was not purely instinctive, Jay Hambidge (1867–1924) spent much of his life searching for the technical bases of design. He found his answer in dynamic symmetry, one of the most provocative and stimulating theories in art history. Hambidge's study of Greek art convinced him that the secret of the beauty of Greek design was in the conscious use of dynamic symmetry — the law of natural design based upon the symmetry of growth in man and in plants. But Hambidge, who was not only a theoretician but also a practicing artist, did much more than analyze classical art and its principles of design: he worked out a series of root rectangles that the artist, using the simple mathematics supplied in this book, can easily follow and apply in his own work. Originally published as a series of lessons in Hambidge's magazine, The Diagonal, this engrossing book explains all the basic principles of dynamic symmetry. Part I sets forth the fundamental rectangles with their simple divisions based on the proportioning law found in nature; Part II explains compound rectangles, many of which were taken from or suggested by analysis of objects of Greek art. Whether read for its historical importance in art theory, for its illuminating insights into Greek art, or for its practical value to today's artists and commercial designers, The Elements of Dynamic Symmetry has much to offer anyone who is interested in the principle of design.
Author : Hendrik Petrus Berlage
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892363339
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)
Download or read book Hendrik Petrus Berlage written by Hendrik Petrus Berlage and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hendrik Petrus Berlage, the Dutch architect and architectural philosopher, created a series of buildings and a body of writings from 1886 to 1909 that were among the first efforts to probe the problems and possibilities of modernism. Although his Amsterdam Stock Exchange, with its rational mastery of materials and space, has long been celebrated for its seminal influence on the architecture of the 20th century, Berlage's writings are highlighted here. Bringing together Berlage's most important texts, among them "Thoughts on Style in Architecture", "Architecture's Place in Modern Aesthetics", and "Art and Society", this volume presents a chapter in the history of European modernism. In his introduction, Iain Boyd Whyte demonstrates that the substantial contribution of Berlage's designs to modern architecture cannot be fully appreciated without an understanding of the aesthetic principles first laid out in his writings.
Author : Thomas Barrie
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781570620058
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Spiritual Path, Sacred Place written by Thomas Barrie and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture has always been more than mere shelter--it expresses some of the most fundamental and universal aspects of human existence. Through an in-depth survey of religious buildings and sacred sites around the world--from Japanese Zen temples to the Stonehenge-like structures of England--the author shows how sacred architecture symbolizes and recapitulates the spiritual quest.
Author : Harold Speed
Publisher : J.B. Lippincott
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Practice & Science of Drawing written by Harold Speed and published by J.B. Lippincott. This book was released on 1922 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lynn Gamwell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691165289
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Mathematics and Art written by Lynn Gamwell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a cultural history of mathematics and art, from antiquity to the present. Mathematicians and artists have long been on a quest to understand the physical world they see before them and the abstract objects they know by thought alone. Taking readers on a tour of the practice of mathematics and the philosophical ideas that drive the discipline, Lynn Gamwell points out the important ways mathematical concepts have been expressed by artists. Sumptuous illustrations of artworks and cogent math diagrams are featured in Gamwell's comprehensive exploration. Gamwell begins by describing mathematics from antiquity to the Enlightenment, including Greek, Islamic, and Asian mathematics. Then focusing on modern culture, Gamwell traces mathematicians' search for the foundations of their science, such as David Hilbert's conception of mathematics as an arrangement of meaning-free signs, as well as artists' search for the essence of their craft, such as Aleksandr Rodchenko's monochrome paintings. She shows that self-reflection is inherent to the practice of both modern mathematics and art, and that this introspection points to a deep resonance between the two fields: Kurt Gödel posed questions about the nature of mathematics in the language of mathematics and Jasper Johns asked "What is art?" in the vocabulary of art. Throughout, Gamwell describes the personalities and cultural environments of a multitude of mathematicians and artists, from Gottlob Frege and Benoît Mandelbrot to Max Bill and Xu Bing. Mathematics and Art demonstrates how mathematical ideas are embodied in the visual arts and will enlighten all who are interested in the complex intellectual pursuits, personalities, and cultural settings that connect these vast disciplines.
