The Arthur Loeb Design Science Collection
Housed at the Nature Lab at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Arthur Loeb Design Science Collection is made up of hundreds of three-dimensional geometric models and two-dimensional patterns.
Example of Loeb Collection
Housed at the Nature Lab at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Arthur Loeb Design Science Collection is made up of hundreds of three-dimensional geometric models and two-dimensional patterns.
“The collection came about because Arthur couldn’t help himself from collecting stuff that fit in his understanding of order, space, pattern, structure. He collected everything, everywhere...”
-from Caryn Johnson’s talk at the Synergetics Collaborative [http://youtu.be/g5ZfnV-DC4Y]
Tensional Integrity
Arthur Loeb was a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and over the course of his life amassed a large collection of geometric models. He was inspired by Buckminster Fuller, who was very interested in design science and new geometries. Fuller is most known for his geodesic dome, but his life’s research involved an extensive investigation of shapes.
Read More
- The Arthur Loeb Design Science Collection Website - http://naturelab.risd.edu/a_loeb_collect_01.html
- Caryn Johnson: The Arthur Loeb Design Science Teaching Collection, http://youtu.be/g5ZfnV-DC4Y
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Acknowledgements & Credits
The Arthur Loeb Design Science Collection
Rhode Island School of Design
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