The Evolution of Useful Things A Book by Henry Petroski Here, then, is the central idea: the form of made things is always subject to change in response to their real or perceived shortcomings, their failures to function properly. This principle governs all invention, innovation, ingenuity. Spike and sponShaped and reshapedForm follows failureTheir wrongness is somehow more immediateA small corner of the world of things+23 More The evolution of devices formfunctioninventionprogressfailure
Anatomical Drawings of Staircase Spaces A Book by Tomoyuki Tanaka ShibuyaDetailPlatformsSpiralDescent+3 More Back to the Drawing BoardSection-perspective drawingKengo Kuma's sketches architecturedrawingtransportationart
Platforms Show image 0 Show image 1 Original by Tanaka, and my own digital tracing. Tablets have caught up