Chapter 4

Chapter 4 the show cont.

There also was another part of the show that included a cube frame structure, a trellis like arrangement that framed a chair display (below),This show was the last time I worked seriously on strut structures. Although I had made good progress with their development, I had been thinking for some time that I should include the panel again in the part inventory. See below.

Early Cube joint (#5), 2nd left, uses the six-way symmetry of the truss node, circa1986.

The bracket for node #11, left and below as it is cut from a flat sheet. This bracket demonstrated four-way symmetry with a vertical central axis. 30"x 30" x 1/2" thk., Finland Birch, 1988

Chapter 5 New Panel Spheres

Janice Avery wrote:
Gregg

The lessons are fascinating - I sit and try to understand the way everything fits together. Can't get to how your mind work to figure these things out
-- you look at things in a fantastic, different way. Still love the chairs
-- just the image from the show is wonderful.

jan

Glad to get your feedback. The big step I think was at the beginning. I had confidence that I could solve any problem and therefore kept working and working on the same things until I had developed a method to help me keep going in the same direction. I am still just following a path that I set out on at the very beginning. "Simplicity is not simple"

I don't feel very smart at all. I see all of my mistakes and how long it takes me to get from one point to another. And my obstinate avoidance of marketing and/or of asking for help is a mystery to me, Although I keep trying to do more, I am always waiting for someone else to want to join in and insist on it and still I would hesitate to disturb my equilibrium.
Gregg

Lamps from 1989

Chapter 5 1/2

At a tribute that I went to for Italian architectural critic Bruno Zevi a question was asked of Frank Gehry who spoke because Zevi was an admirer
of his "humanistic architecture" which was also likened to Frank Lloyd Wright's "organic architecture". The question asked of Gehry was how
something described as humanistic could ignore so much of humanity and he immediately responded by lamenting the lack of clients for low cost
housing.
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You remember from those lamps (prior chapter) that I again went to the geometry of that first structure (technical name; rhombicuboctahedron), this time with a new connection system where only alternating square faces were filled with panels such that they met point to point. Those are the
panels with the pins in them. In the lamps, the other areas were also filled with panels, although nonstructural. I made one of these pinned rhombicubes six feet in diameter (above, pardon the pose, it was the photographer's idea) before deciding that I again should change to the icosahedral geometry if I wanted the structures to get larger. See the models left. The ball on the right is 22" in diameter.

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