The maximalist theory of minimalism
summary
Argues that modern minimalism really hides ornament as engineered smoothness while historical craft puts ornament on display, and shows how that matters with concrete examples and tools: 50 microns veins on Tiffany‑decorated Smith & Wesson guns, eight museum examples, a 26×14 ft carpet with 100000 knots, the Challenger’s 80,000‑mile specimen haul, and the math behind splines — NURBS and Alias and Bezier workflows used in industrial design. Presents an early built prototype, a mythic computer, as a modestly successful blend of both approaches.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:30Arms and Armor
- 3:30Part 1 Obvious
- 13:30Part 3 Ornament
- 17:34Part 3 Striking a truce
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