Customer Reviews

Order in Space: A Design Source Book (A Studio Book)

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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.

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.

this is a nice book. very unique.
if you have a symmetry or polyhedra fetish, go for it.
fun surprises await.
will inspire you to make some models of the sort that you never considered.
i will not get rid of this book.

I bought this book to teach my Geometry students how to construct geometrical designs; however, this book is not really for beginner's. It is fantastic for getting a sense of how dimensions build on top of one another and looking at the drawings is fascinating and I'm happy to have the book in my collection. I just haven't found it that useful for learning how to create the drawings oneself.