Keith Critchlow

British artist, geometer, and educator (1933–2020), author of Order in Space: A Design Source Book (1969) and a leading figure in the twentieth-century revival of sacred geometry.

Critchlow's Order in Space is a compact visual introduction to the geometry of spatial order — the close-packing of spheres, the Platonic and Archimedean solids, space-filling, and symmetry — presented as a design source book. He explicitly connects this geometry to Fuller's work, and went on to co-found the Temenos Academy and the VITA program, teaching geometry as a bridge between science, art, and the contemplative traditions.

Role in Fuller's orbit

Critchlow is an adjacent geometer whose study of spatial order runs alongside Fuller's synergetics — sphere-packing, polyhedra, and symmetry — while extending it toward the sacred-geometry tradition. Order in Space names Fuller as an explicit reference point.

See Also

• Order in Space (Order in Space) — the design source book he wrote
• Synergetics (Synergetics) — Fuller's geometry of sphere-packing and polyhedra his book parallels
• H. S. M. Coxeter (H. S. M. Coxeter) — fellow custodian of visual, polyhedral geometry

Sources

• Order in Space (source reference) — the work attributing authorship