Claude Bragdon was an architect who saw in higher-dimensional geometry a source of both ornament and revelation. Four-Dimensional Vistas (1916) is his graceful essay on the fourth dimension — as mathematics, as a way of reading mystical experience, and as a designer’s instrument — written with a working artist’s eye for what hypersolids actually look like when they cast shadows into our world.
Bragdon’s projective ornament influenced a generation of American design, and his prose makes difficult geometry feel like architecture. Download the free EPUB for the fourth dimension at its most civilised.