This is a sampling of cases studies from the book. Additional historical and contemporary examples that illustrate the book’s methodology will be added in the future.
50 years – not much has changed
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Ontario Science Center, 1969. © Ontario Science Center
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SMUD Museum of Science and Curiosity, 2013
Both these examples share the book’s design tropes of form, atmosphere, staging, communication, and learning.
Still fashioning fabric forms
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Velvet and Silk Café, Berlin, 1927. © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY.
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Mathematics: The Winton Gallery, 2012. © Science Museum London. Photograph by Luke Hayes.
The curved fabric walls in Lily Reich’s design for the Velvet and Silk Café offer a fabric form that anticipates the parabolic algorithms employed in the hanging structures by Zaha Hadid at London’s Science Museum.