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Aesthetic and Efficient: A Way of Thinking
Book Three of A Trilogy of Contemplation.
Somewhere in your house is an object no one taught you to love - proof of an old, false divide: that beauty is one question and usefulness is another.
Aesthetic and Efficient argues that divide was never real. Across forty chapters and seven movements, the book moves between nature and the human-made world - a wind-cooled stone screen, a termite mound that breathes, a whale's tubercled flipper, Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks - to show the same pattern at every scale: the things that last are the things where form and function were never separated to begin with.
It also turns a clear eye on what we waste, and offers four durable questions for anything you make, buy, or build.
Written in the same quiet voice as Journey to Infinity Within and The Inward Quest, this closing volume asks what it means to make things the way nature always has - nothing wasted, nothing missing.
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