In a Grain of Sand: Exploring Design by Nature.

FEININGER, Andreas.

ISBN 10: 0871567636 / ISBN 13: 9780871567635

Published by Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, 1986

About this Item

Black and white photographs throughout. First printing. Near fine in a near fine, price clipped dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 28654

Bibliographic Details

• Title: In a Grain of Sand: Exploring Design by Nature.
• Publisher: Sierra Club Books, San Francisco
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0871567636
• ISBN 13: 9780871567635
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Natural History

About this title

Synopsis

Photographs show natural patterns found in feathers, shells, seeds, leaves, bones, cobwebs, beehives, nests, flowers, pine cones, bark, marine life, and frost

Synopsis

Andreas Feininger selects over 130 photographs from 30 years of work to demonstrate the graceful interplay of form, function, and purpose in natural objects. The images, accompanied by the author's commentary, show how design in such deceptively simple things as shells, feathers, and animal bones reflects a variety of shaping forces, suggests principles applicable to many architectural and technical problems, and evokes nature's beauty. Feininger, a former architect and structural engineer, reveals how nature's engineering efforts are ingeniously conceived, flawlessly executed with a minimum expenditure of material, and invariably beautiful to the receptive eye. The magnified image of a clam shell suggests the grace and rhythm of a classical frieze; a cross section of a chambered nautilus demonstrates the mathematic precision of form.