Aesthetics:


By Nature's Design -an Exploratorium Book
by William Neill (Photographer), Pat Murphy, Exploratorium (Organization)
Publisher: Chronicle Books, 1993
'about order and pattern in nature with wonderful and informative visuals'
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Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition
by Kimberly Elam
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001
'exploring the visual relationships that have foundations in mathematics '
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On Growth and Form
by Darcy Wentworth Thompson, John Tyler Bonner (Editor), D"Arcy Thompson
'about the 'theory of transformation' that one species evolves into another by large-scale transformations involving the body as a whole'
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Power of Limits
by Gyorgy Doczi
Publisher: Shambhala; Reissue edition, 1981
'priciples of patterns and structures found in the both the natural and manmade world.
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Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice (Art and Imagination)
by Robert Lawlor
'Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 1989
'explores the meanings and symbolism of sacred geometry'
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The Fourth Dimension: Sacred Geometry, Alchemy, and Mathematics
by Rudolf Steiner, David Booth (Introduction)
Publisher: Steiner Books, 2001
'essays on the significance and concept of the fourth dimension'
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The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number by Mario Livio
Publisher: Broadway, 2003
'phi is seen through art and architecture, botany and biology, physics and mathematics'
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Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation
by W. J. T. Mitchell Publisher: University Of Chicago Press, 1995
'offers a rich account of the interplay between the visible and the readable across culture, from literature to visual art to the mass media'
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Visual Intelligence: Perception, Image, and Manipulation in Visual Communication
by Anne Marie Seward Barry
Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1997
'about how we derive meaning from images, the perceptual process, how it has evolved, and the role it plays in our thinking'
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Language of Vision
By Gyorgy Kepes
Publisher: Dover Publications, 1995
'analysis of the effect of visual language on the structure of human consciousness, the elements of line and form are perceived, etc.'
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Information Architects  
by Richard Saul Wurman, Watson-Guptill Pubns, 1997
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Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology
by W. J. T. Mitchell Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; Reprint, 1987
'explores the nature of images by comparing them with words, or, more precisely, by looking at them from the viewpoint of verbal language'
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