The Power of Limits : Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art & Architecture / Gyorgy Doczi

The Power of Limits : Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art & Architecture / Gyorgy Doczi

Books

REF.TY. 2070
Reference Collection
ix, 150 p. : ill. ; 25cm
1981
1985
Gyorgy Doczi
Hazel Bercholz
Random House, Inc.
Holland D. Holland
Shambhala Publications, Inc.
Boston
Design., mathematics, symmetry
Includes appendices, notes, credits, and index. 'The Power of Limits' was inspired by those simple discoveries of harmony. The author then went on to investigate and measure hundreds of patterns - ancient and modern, minute and vast. His discovery, vividly illustrated here, is that certain proportions occur over and over again in all these forms. Patterns are also repeated in how things grow and are made - by the dynamic union of opposites - as demonstrated by the spirals which move in opposite directions in the growth of a plant. -- Back cover.