The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art,

The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art, and Architecture
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One of the delights of life is the discovery and rediscovery of patterns of order and beauty in natureâ€”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 because they suggest an order underlying their growth, a harmony existing in nature. What does it mean that such an order exists; how far does it extend?

The Power of Limits was inspired by those simple discoveries of harmony. The author went on to investigate and measure hundreds of patternsâ€”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 madeâ€”by the dynamic union of oppositesâ€”as demonstrated by the spirals that move in opposite directions in the growth of a plant.

The joining of unity and diversity in the discipline of proportional limitations creates forms that are beautiful to us because they embody the principles of the cosmic order of which we are a part; conversely, the limitlessness of that order is revealed by the strictness of its forms. The author shows how we, as humans, are included in the universal harmony of form, and suggests that the union of complementary opposites may be a way to extend that harmony to the psychological and social realms as well.
Country USA
Brand Shambhala
Manufacturer Shambhala
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781590302590
Color Red
ReleaseDate 2005-10-11
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590302590

Country	USA
Brand	Shambhala
Manufacturer	Shambhala
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781590302590
Color	Red
ReleaseDate	2005-10-11
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781590302590

The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art, and Architecture

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