Tucked away in our Edna Lawrence Nature Lab are a series of models from the Loeb Collection in Foundation Studies. These shapes are not from nature … but they really are. The Loeb Collection speaks to the mathematical essence of the efficient forms of nature. As you can see by the way they naturally transform and change, they represent the elegance of our universe – always in flux and always adaptive to our surrounding environment. -JM

PS If you like the above, I recommend that you visit the infamous Soda Constructor system.

PS2 RISD Trustee Stephen Metcalf kindly informed me that Loeb 3 above is called “jitterbug” by Dennis Dreher and was made in the 70s. Metcalf writes to me, “The hinges are very elegant allowing the octahedron to transform smoothly through a cuboctahdron and back to an octahedron.”