The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies and 50 similar items

Birkitts Books presents ... The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art and Architecture ISBN: 0394735803 Author: Doczi, Gyorgy Publisher: Shambhala Release Date: 1985 Seller Category: Science and Nature Qty Available: 1 Condition: Used: Good Sku: 230922005 Notes: Same ISBN, later printing, 1985. Covers are moderately worn, binding sound, internally clean. 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 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 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. The joining of unity and diversity in the discipline of proportional limitations creates forms which 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. Gyorgy Doczi has practiced architecture in Hungary, Sweden, and Iran, and now is a senior design consultant in Seattle, Washington. He initiated a permanent exhibit on form in nature and art at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, and is a founder of the Friends of Jungian Psychology Northwest. Don't forget to check out other great deals in our Store!!