A contemporary of Darwin, Haeckel out drew the great man but maybe did not get as much "right". But for now it will be a tremendous design challenge to understand the potential of these drawings.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Building form
One of the best things about teaching is the bag of tricks that you get to put together to build a project. Next up for my furniture students is a simple stool, using the structural knowledge embedded in these drawings by 19th century scientist Ernst Haeckel.
A contemporary of Darwin, Haeckel out drew the great man but maybe did not get as much "right". But for now it will be a tremendous design challenge to understand the potential of these drawings.
A contemporary of Darwin, Haeckel out drew the great man but maybe did not get as much "right". But for now it will be a tremendous design challenge to understand the potential of these drawings.
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2 comments:
wow - I want to be in your class!
me too thanks for this historical link up. I'd seen these images online before but no idea where they came from.
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