rachel fletcher
Rachel Fletcher is the author of Infinite Measure: Learning to Design in Geometric Harmony with Art, Architecture, and Nature. She taught theater design at Tufts University in the late 1970s and early 1980s, has been a faculty member of the New York School of Interior Design since 1996, and for ten years was a contributing editor to the Nexus Network Journal. Her professional work designing theatrical spaces led to an interest in the principles of geometric proportion and harmony as a design system, including time as a geometer and teacher of geometry and proportion at dozens of universities, museums, and institutions in the United States and Europe, as well as for school-age children and adult professionals. In this capacity, she received an International Center for Jefferson Studies Fellowship Award from the Thomas Jefferson Foundation to study geometric proportions in Jefferson’s architectural works.
Fletcher was the creator/curator of the museum exhibits “Infinite Measure,” “Design by Nature,” and “Harmony by Design: The Golden Mean” and the author of the latter’s exhibit catalog.
Her website is www.infinitemeasure.com
Phone: 4135283391
Address: www.rachelfletcher.org
Fletcher was the creator/curator of the museum exhibits “Infinite Measure,” “Design by Nature,” and “Harmony by Design: The Golden Mean” and the author of the latter’s exhibit catalog.
Her website is www.infinitemeasure.com
Phone: 4135283391
Address: www.rachelfletcher.org
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In Infinite Measure, Fletcher shares her professional knowledge and experience of geometry and proportion by offering practical techniques for design applications, including step-by-step elementary and advanced drawings for producing proportional schemes with a compass and rule; commentaries on geometric symbols and useful theorems; definitions; and etymologies of essential mathematical terms. A highlight of the book are Fletcher’s original studies that analyze harmonious proportions in world-famous art, architecture, landscape design, and other compositions. These include the South Rose Window at Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris, Andrea Palladio’s Villa Emo and Teatro Olimpico, a Stradivari violin, Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, Beatrix Farrand’s garden courtyard for the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, the illuminated Lindisfarne Gospels, a Louis Sullivan stencil for the Chicago Stock Exchange, and Eero Saarinen’s North Christian Church.
The information includes five methods of drawing the golden mean with a compass and rule.
Each method is illustrated with representational drawings showing the implementation of the golden section in architecture from 2800 B.C. with Stonehenge to the present day.
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In Infinite Measure, Fletcher shares her professional knowledge and experience of geometry and proportion by offering practical techniques for design applications, including step-by-step elementary and advanced drawings for producing proportional schemes with a compass and rule; commentaries on geometric symbols and useful theorems; definitions; and etymologies of essential mathematical terms. A highlight of the book are Fletcher’s original studies that analyze harmonious proportions in world-famous art, architecture, landscape design, and other compositions. These include the South Rose Window at Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris, Andrea Palladio’s Villa Emo and Teatro Olimpico, a Stradivari violin, Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, Beatrix Farrand’s garden courtyard for the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, the illuminated Lindisfarne Gospels, a Louis Sullivan stencil for the Chicago Stock Exchange, and Eero Saarinen’s North Christian Church.
The information includes five methods of drawing the golden mean with a compass and rule.
Each method is illustrated with representational drawings showing the implementation of the golden section in architecture from 2800 B.C. with Stonehenge to the present day.