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Structure in nature is a strategy for design
Book by Pearce, Peter
245 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1978
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Peter Pearce
6 booksPeter Pearce (B.S., Product Design, IIT's Institute of Design, 1958) was President and Director of Research and Development at Synestructics, Inc., having previously served as Associate Dean of the School of Design at the California Institute of the Arts.
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November 12, 2025I really enjoyed this – Pearce is a slightly less out-there Fuller, more mathematically thorough but still exhaustive in his search for space-filling geometries.
A funny thing happens towards the end of the book, however, where after the search for a universal structural connection that can make almost any space possible, we find that the only applications he had for it by that point were climbing frames for children, and then, when he demonstrates the system's ability to cope with multistorey and multifunction buildings, including housing, we are suddenly confronted with weird triangulated sort-of dome-shaped buildings that it is very very hard to see as being appealing to anyone at the time.
One for true truncated octahedron heads, essentially.
A funny thing happens towards the end of the book, however, where after the search for a universal structural connection that can make almost any space possible, we find that the only applications he had for it by that point were climbing frames for children, and then, when he demonstrates the system's ability to cope with multistorey and multifunction buildings, including housing, we are suddenly confronted with weird triangulated sort-of dome-shaped buildings that it is very very hard to see as being appealing to anyone at the time.
One for true truncated octahedron heads, essentially.
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