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In this extraordinary book, Peter Engel, one of America’s most celebrated origami artists, explores the secrets of Japanese paperfolding and explains how to create complex animals and objects from simple squares of paper.
This book begins with a clear and concise introduction to the terminology and basic techniques of paperfoldi8ng. Then, in a fact-filled exposition of origami’s history and theory – including an extraordinary interview with Japan’s legendary master, Akira Yoshizawa – the author, a write and architect, explores origami’s links with mathematics, art, philosophy, and nature.
Challenging paperfolders to turn a “mute, geometric shape into a recognizable figure,” the author provides clear, step-by-step instructions for 24 delightful projects of his own creation. His designs of simple fish and birds are easy to make. Others, including mammals and insects, use original techniques and pose a greater challenge. Among the models you’ll learn to construct are an angelfish, hummingbird, penguin, giraffe kangaroo, centipede, alligator, reindeer, elephant, butterfly, and knight on horseback. A photograph depicts each completed item.
This absorbing book, with its contemporary approach to an ancient art form, will captivate paperfolders with hours of creative entertainment and provocative reading.
• Paperback
• 256 pages
• Author: Peter Engel
“This splendidly written, richly illustrated book is unlike any every written about origami.” – Martin Gardner
“Filled with provocative ideas and unexpected connections…truly inspirational.” – Milton Glaser
About the Author: Peter Engel
Peter Engel was born in 1959 and grew up in New York City. Throughout a varied career that has included architecture, writing, graphic design, and origami, he has consistently tried to integrate artistic and scientific points of view, with results that are evident in this book. He studied the history and philosophy of science at Harvard University, where he received the Leonard J. Siff Prize in 1981 for his thesis. In 1987 he graduated from Columbia University with a master’s degree in architecture and received a William Kinne Fellows Award to study low- income housing in India, research that has also been supported by grants from the Fulbright Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Graham Foundation, and the Asian Cultural Council. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, The New Republic, The Sciences, Scientific American, Harvard Magazine, Earthwatch, Discover, and other publications. He lives in Oakland, California with his wife, Cheryl, and daughter, Hannah Madeleine.
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