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In the interdisciplinary tradition of Buckminster
Fuller's work, Gregory Bateson's Mind and Nature,
and Fritjof Capra's Tao of Physics, Metapatterns
embraces both nature and culture, seeking out the grand-scale
patterns that help explain the functioning of our universe.
Metapatterns begins with the archetypal
patterns of space, both form building and relational. Tyler
Volk then turns to the arrows, breaks, and cycles that infuse
the workings of time. With artful dexterity, he brings together
many layers of comprehension, drawing on an astounding range
of material from art, architecture, philosophy, mythology,
biology, geometry, and the atmospheric and oceanographic
sciences.
Richly illustrating his metapatterns with
a series of sophisticated collages prepared for this book,
Volk offers an exciting new look at science and the imagination.
As playful and intuitive as it is logical and explanatory,
Metapatterns offers an enlightening view of the functional,
universal forms in space, processes in time, and concepts
in mind.
Tyler Volk is Associate Professor in
the Earth Systems Group of New York University's Biology
Department. A passion for the interdisciplinary and a heart
full of biophilia have spurred him to explore metapatterns
for two decades. Volk holds a bachelor's degree in architecture
and a Ph.D. in Applied Science. He has taught at the School
of Visual Arts and Cooper Union, both in New York City.
Spanning the technical to the popular, his articles have
appeared in such magazines as Nature, New Scientist,
The Sciences, and Natural History.
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