Order in Space: A Design Source Book

by Keith Critchlow

Book by Critchlow, Keith

Genres: Design, Art, Architecture, Nonfiction, Esoterica, Mathematics

120 pages, Spiral-bound

First published January 1, 1970

About the author

Dr. Keith Critchlow is the cofounder of the journal Temenos, as well as the author of numerous books on sacred geometry, including Order in Space and Time Stands Still. He is Professor Emeritus at The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts in London, and a former professor of Islamic Art at the Royal College of Art. Prof. Critchlow, a leading expert in sacred architecture, also founded Kairos, a society that investigates, studies, and promotes traditional values of art and science.

Prof. Critchlow's contributions to World Wisdom's books on sacred art include such pieces as his forewords to Titus Burckhardt's extraordinary work Chartres and the Birth of the Cathedral and the compilation of Burckhardt's writings on Christian art in general, The Foundations of Christian Art: Illustrated (edited by Michael Fitzgerald), which won a Gold Midwest Book Award and a Silver Benjamin Franklin Award. In addition, Keith Critchlow wrote a foreword to the book of Frithjof Schuon's writings on sacred art, Art from the Sacred to the Profane: East and West (edited by Catherine Schuon).

from worldwisdom.com

Reviews

[Bruce · Rating 4 out of 5]

While this is chock full of great information and drawings, the writing is very terse and dry. Hard to follow sometimes. The illustrations all look like they were done, though neatly, by hand. You can probably do better looking some of this stuff up on the internet, with this book to guide you. No real overarching narrative and no large pretty pictures, so hard to really sit down and dig into, but rewarding once one has done so, because if you have the motivation it will be worthwhile. So yes "source book" sums it up neatly.

[Fahad · Rating 5 out of 5]

truncation in geometrical shapes

[Glenn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have the 1969 edition. I bought this in 1972 as part of the exploratory material I worked with to come up with a project design for a team construction project in Crown Hall at Illinois Institute of Technology. Essentially a first year Architecture project. I just now found the book in my closet -- and the photos I made of the project. Our team built a cardboard structure using rhomic dodecahedra and hexahedra as the basic building blocks. After trying out many many small models of various shapes.

I wish Goodreads had a way to add images. It was over 10 feet in height and over 20 ft X 20 Ft.

Needless to say, I think this book is one of a kind - and should be of interest to anyone who is likes playing with all space-filling solids.