The purpose of this study was to investigate the concepts of ratio and proportion constructed by grade six and grade nine students. The methodology used was both qualitative and quantitative in nature. This study accumulates evidence regarding the nature of students' proportiona…
"Architects Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto have been generating some of the most provocative thinking in the field for nearly twenty years. With Atlas of Novel Tectonics, Reiser+Umemoto hone in on the many facets of architec-ture and illuminate their theories with great thought…
"One of the delights of life is the discovery and rediscovery of patterns of order and beauty in nature--designs revealed by slicing through a head of cabbage or an orange, the forms of shells and butterfly wings. These images are awesome not just for their beauty alone, but bec…
Plants - Crafts - Tangible and intangible patterns - Cosmic order - Calendric structures - Nature - Measurement - Golden section - Chinese writing - Origins of writing - Hebrew writing from the Dead Sea Scrolls - Arabic writing - Lines from the Gutenberg Bible - Stonehenge - Ur …
Looks at proportion and patterns in plant and animal structure, art, music, and architecture. One of the delights of life is the discovery and rediscovery of patterns of order and beauty in nature--the designs revealed by slicing through a head of cabbage or an orange, the form…